The latest essay from The Relational Justice Project™ asks a prior question Australia is developing the next phase of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children. The consultation asks necessary questions about prevention, evidence, children’s safety, institutional capability and the creation of more connected … [Read more...]
The Relational Justice Project: From Opens to a Constituency.
Why The Relational Justice Project is about more than readership The Relational Justice Project is growing. Most of those subscribers have come through the Dialogue In Growth community. That tells me something important. There is an audience for the proposition that family relationships are social infrastructure and that relational harm … [Read more...]
The Relational Justice Project: What alienation takes from children
The Relational Justice Project has now reached its third essay:This essay turns directly to the child. Debates about separated families are too often conducted as contests between adults, institutions, ideologies and legal categories. The child is invoked constantly, but not always understood relationally. Family Relationships are Social … [Read more...]
Introducing The Relational Justice Project
A New Direction Over the past several months, a particular line of work has taken clearer shape. Many of you will know me through Dialogue in Growth and my work on family relationships, post-separation harm, parental alienation, institutional failure, suicide prevention, and the social conditions that turn private suffering into public … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Ministers for Women
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...]
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: 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...]
How Family Law Perpetuates in Alienation Abuse
Representing a parent's view about what is in their children's best interests is not about perpetuating alienation abuse. Alienating parents' behaviour may contradict their claims. Alienating parents may make you think they focus on their children's best interests. Yet, they may lead you to collaborate with parental alienation as a form of child … [Read more...]
False Allegations and Parental Alienation in Australian Family Law
False allegations may be used as a defence against parental alienation in Australian Family law. False allegations may include family violence, child sexual abuse, mental illness, and parental neglect. Targeted parents may need to allow the parents making false allegations to implicate themselves. Targeted parents are in danger from false claims … [Read more...]
