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"We Know What You Don't Know" Family Law and Family Violence: Outdated, Misled Family Law and family violence commentary in Australia relies on outdated and misleading concepts.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...]
Family Violence Orders: Should You Really Apply For Them?
In our work with targeted -alienated parents, we have found that alienating parents may allege family violence against them. They may subject them to multiple Family Violence Protection Orders to exclude them from a relationship with their children. Such orders include intervention orders, apprehended violence orders or violence restraining orders. … [Read more...]
CRASH! Parental Alienation, Family Violence and Family Law
I was invited to present on parental alienation and family law at a local chapter of the Family Law Pathway’s Network (FLPN). You may see this presentation below: Family law professionals, ranging from legal counsel, Independent Children's Lawyers (ICL) and family consultants struggle with parental alienation as a form of family violence … [Read more...]
