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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
NOT A National Suicide Prevention Strategy For Parental Alienation!
Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy has now been published, but it is not for men or women dying from suicide due to disrupted family relationships from parental alienation during separation and divorce. Australia’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy is gendered. It fails to address the leading causes of male suicide, … [Read more...]
Alienated Parent Suicide may be Death by Family Violence (Amended)
Are Alienating Parents Implicated in Family Violence by Suicide? * Amended article: Suicide is a major public health issue. It has not been considered a crime for some time. Targeted-alienated parents, or other people dying by suicide associated with alienation, family violence or mental health distress are not involved in a crime or wrong … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: What Doesn’t Family Law and Family Violence Know?
"We Know What You Don't Know" Family Law and Family Violence: Outdated, Misled Family Law and family violence commentary in Australia relies on outdated and misleading concepts. Considering parental alienation as a form of coercive-controlling family violence and child psychological maltreatment requiring specific assessment and … [Read more...]
Alienating Father Makes Mother Terrified of her Son
(Correction) Alienation made "M" terrified of her son and her alienating ex-partner. Family Violence Services and Family Law could not help "M" remediate her alienated teenage son's relationship with her. His father coerced her son into falsely claiming she violently abused him. He corrupted his relationship with his son to make his son think … [Read more...]
