The Emergence of Ministers for Men is Not a Threat — It is a Test of Whether Gender Policy can Grow Up The emergence of ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men should not be treated as a threat to women’s policy or competition for resources. It should be treated as a test of whether Australia’s gender-policy architecture is mature … [Read more...]
The Alienated Society Ends Here
Why Private Suffering Must Become Political Action A father recently left a comment on my website asking how any of my essays apply in the real world. What, he asked, can a father like him do to protect his children from what he experiences as systemic child trafficking? I would not use that phrase as my policy description. But I understand … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Aspiring Ministers for Men in Public Office
Before You Accept the Title, Understand the Job Australia is beginning to appoint ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men. That could matter. It could also become another symbolic accommodation: a new title attached to old policy habits, a few grants, a men’s health campaign, a promise to get men talking, and no serious reckoning with … [Read more...]
Essay: The Child is Still in the Middle: Parental Alienation, Domestic Abuse and the Battle for the Future of Family Policy
A call to the domestic abuse field to accept conceptual parity with parental alienation, and to embrace evidentiary governance and relational ethics in family policy The Child is Still in The Middle This essay is more direct than my recent writing on relational ethics and future families. I have mostly avoided the parental alienation versus … [Read more...]
New White Paper Calls for a Social and Public Health Policy Framework for Alienation in Families
Parental alienation cannot be addressed only through courts, clinicians and private family disputes. It requires prevention, early identification, accessible remediation and institutional accountability. Dialogue in Growth has released White Paper No. 2, Beyond the Psycho-Legal Paradigm: A Social and Public Health Policy Framework for … [Read more...]
New White Paper: Parental Alienation, Relational Harm and the Future of Families
The family of the future need not be nuclear, traditional or fixed. But it must not become a social form in which children’s safe and meaningful relationships are made disposable. Dialogue in Growth White Paper No. 1 argues that parental alienation is not only a post-separation family-law issue. It is a warning about what happens when … [Read more...]
UPDATE: A Suicide Prevention Blind Spot: Family Relationship Rupture and DFSV
Why the DFSV–Suicide Inquiry Must Widen Its Lens: Supplementary Submission to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs By Stan Korosi, PhDDialogue in Growth | Policy and social analysis Australia’s new parliamentary Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual … [Read more...]
PASG 2026 Perth, Australia: Our Keynote Speakers
International Parental Alienation Conference Focusing on Families, Family Relationships and Preventing Harm. I am one of several keynote speakers, featuring the next parental alienation conference, PASG 2026, to be held in Perth, 11-13 October 2026. This conference will continue to provide a platform to present the latest developments in the … [Read more...]
Challenging the “Contestability” Claims About Parental Alienation
The word “contestable” and the notion of "contestability" are increasingly used as a political lever to delegitimise parental alienation (PA) in government and court settings. Yet, gendered theories of family violence (GFV) are largely untouched by the same standard. The brief responds to reporting that in 2025, a … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: Shaping the Future of Families
—and Policy must catch up Parental alienation (PA) is not just a private family dispute but a structural social phenomenon. It is actively reshaping family relationships, family narratives, and the future configuration of families. How is Parental Alienation a Problem? One parent uses PA behaviours (PABs) to manipulate a child into … [Read more...]
