At the 8th international PASG conference in Perth, I launched The Relational Justice Project (RJP) and presented its central proposition: family relationships are social infrastructure. Safe relationships should continue, and continuing relationships must be safe.
PASG 2026 was the Parental Alienation Study Group’s (PASG) first international conference in the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers and practitioners joined parents and adult children with lived experience in examining parental alienation and its consequences. My newly published wrap-up draws on the presentations and discussions that informed my RJP assessment of the conference.
The article addresses a concern familiar to Dialogue in Growth readers: family systems must respond to violence and coercive control while also recognising the harm caused by avoidable loss of safe family relationships. That requires attention to conduct and context.
I also consider the changes to Australian family law and the gap the RJP sees between recognising the benefit of safe family relationships and ensuring that institutions can preserve them in practice.
Dialogue in Growth will continue to publish research, professional analysis and related news. The Relational Justice Project is the home for the public policy platform and change proposals arising from this work.
Read the full RJP reflection on PASG 2026: https://relationaljustice.substack.com/p/launching-the-relational-justice?r=3rl5f5
Similar Posts:
- None Found
Leave a Reply