Stan Korosi

™ A public social and policy reform project seeking recognition, accountability and repair for relational harm. OUR PRINCIPLES

1 Family relationships are social infrastructure. Safe and meaningful family relationships are not merely private interests. They are a public good.

2 Family relationships have continuity across family configurations. Separation and family restructuring change relationships. They should not unnecessarily erase them.

3 Relational harm is real harm. The avoidable destruction, obstruction or severance of meaningful family relationships—including alienation and harmful family estrangement—can damage identity, belonging, memory, continuity and intergenerational connection.

4 Evidence requires equity and integrity. Claims of alienation, abuse, coercive control and relational harm should be assessed through consistent evidentiary standards, without prejudging credibility or assigning evidentiary weight by category alone.

5 Institutions must be accountable for avoidable relational harm. Courts, governments and professional systems should be accountable when their actions, assumptions, delays or failures contribute to unnecessary relational destruction.

Recognition is the first step. Collective action turns recognition into reform.

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Recent sociological research situates parental alienation as an alienating social

process in families, reflecting a broader alienating society. Such alienating social

processes use vilifying and stigmatising narratives to coerce children into excluding the

targeted parent and cancelling their identity while appearing to normalise such processes

in family culture and history. Parental alienation was first formulated in the 1980s at the

same time as profound changes in society, life, and work. These tectonic shifts changed

the family from a solid institutional structure to a fluid discourse about family

relationships and configurations. Situating parental alienation as an alienation discourse

abusing power in relational narratives responds to how the contemporary discursive

family is vulnerable to an alienating parent dominating the perception of reality

(“perspecticide”) and cancelling parents’ and children’s identity (“identicide”).

Formulating parental alienation as a social and political issue could lead to new

dialogues about the social and public health implications not addressed in the current

discourse about parental alienation as a psychological dysfunction and a legal dispute.

It may lead to de-alienation strategies and public policies for structural changes

addressing the social and institutional perpetuation of parental alienation.