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 Instructure
The central proposition of The Relational Justice Project is that family relationships are not merely private attachments. They are social infrastructure.
When institutions fail to recognise, protect or repair those relationships, private suffering becomes public harm.
What Alienation Takes From Children
Essay 3 follows from the moral corruption of relatiuonal diss;posability that Essay 2 exposes. It asks what is taken from children when a meaningful relationship with a parent, grandparent or wider family is obstructed, denigrated, weakened or lost.
It is not only time that is taken:
- It is identity.
- It is continuity.
- It is belonging.
- It is memory.
- It is inheritance.
- It is the child’s right to stand in an honest relationship with the people and histories from which they come.
The Relational Justice Project Moves Forward
Interest is growing in The Relational Justice Project. That tells me two things.
- First, there is already a wider readership interested in serious work on family relationships, institutional harm and social change.
- Second, the Relational Justice Project now needs its own constituency.
Dialogue In Growth Pty. Ltd will continue to share related news and commentary. But the main home for the Relational Justice Manifesto is now The Relational Justice Project on Substack.
Read Essay 3 here:https://open.substack.com/pub/alienatedtoo/p/essay-3-what-alienation-takes-from?r=3rl5f5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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This is not simply a publication list.
It is the beginning of a constituency for relational justice.
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