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...]
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...]
POLICY BRIEF: Rethinking Gendered Models of Family Violence
Why Gendered Theories of Family Violence Are As Contestable—If Not More So—Than Parental Alienation Theory Like many social science presentations, gendered theories of family violence and parental alienation may be considered contested concepts. They both rely fundamentally on the subjectivity of lived experience and assessment of structural … [Read more...]
IPV, Tired and Misleading Tropes From the AIFS
The report on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released in June 2025, relies on tired, male-gendered tropes that skew its findings and may mislead the public and policymakers. It reports that in 2022, one in three Australian men used IPV, mostly against their female partners or family members. … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: Focus on The 2025 Australian Federal Election
Reform Family Law For 2025! Ignoring the Costs at YOUR Expense! According to USA population projections1, 1.3% of Australians may be parents who have been moderately or severely alienated from their children. In 2024, that equates to more than 350,000 parents and possibly 700,000 children2. UK research3 and USA projections suggest … [Read more...]
Withdrawing the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop from Australia
We no longer provide the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop and the adjunct After Care Protocol in Australia. We previously provided these services for Family Law in Australia to remediate child psychological abuse and severely alienated parent-child relationships. The principal reasons are: Adverse Changes to the Australian Family Law Act … [Read more...]
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