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Advocacy Organisations — Parental Alienation & Family-Court Reform

Independent advocacy organisations doing policy work, research dissemination, and parent-support work in the parental-alienation and family-court reform space.

International

Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG)

  • URL: https://pasg.info/
  • Founded: 2013
  • What it does: International association of mental-health and legal professionals studying PA. Annual conferences, peer-reviewed publication coordination, position statements. Bernet and many of the field's leading researchers participate.
  • Membership: Open to professionals; affiliate membership for parents.

International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP)

  • URL: https://www.twohomes.org/
  • Founded: 2013 (Edward Kruk founding president)
  • What it does: Cross-jurisdictional research and policy network promoting equal shared parenting as the post-separation default. Tracks legislative reform globally.

United States

National Parents Organization (NPO)

  • URL: https://nationalparentsorganization.org/
  • What it does: US 501(c)(3) advocating for shared-parenting legal reforms at state level. Publishes state-by-state report cards on shared-parenting laws. Active in state-legislature lobbying.

Center for Judicial Excellence (CJE)

  • URL: https://centerforjudicialexcellence.org/
  • What it does: US-based; tracks family-court outcomes and child fatalities related to family-court decisions. Strong on safeguarding-side reform. Note framing: not always aligned with PA-as-construct community, but worth knowing both perspectives.

American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC)

  • URL: https://acfc.org/
  • What it does: US fathers'-rights advocacy organisation. Legislative lobbying, state-by-state organising.

United Kingdom

Families Need Fathers (FNF)

  • URL: https://fnf.org.uk/
  • What it does: UK charity supporting parents and grandparents (regardless of gender) maintain relationships with their children after separation. Support groups, legal-procedure guidance, advocacy.

Fathers 4 Justice

  • URL: https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/
  • What it does: UK direct-action fathers'-rights advocacy. High public profile; framing more activist than FNF.

Both Parents Matter Cymru

  • URL: https://www.bothparentsmatter.org.uk/
  • What it does: Welsh charity supporting separated parents maintain meaningful relationships with their children.

Canada

Canadian Equal Parenting Council

  • URL: https://canadianequalparenting.com/
  • What it does: Canadian advocacy for equal-shared-parenting legal reform.

Australia

Dads in Distress / Parents Beyond Breakup

  • URL: https://www.parentsbeyondbreakup.com/
  • What it does: Australian support organisation for parents experiencing relationship breakdown, including those facing PA. Peer-support model with national coverage.

National Council for Children Post-Separation (NCCPS)

  • URL: https://nccps.org.au/
  • What it does: Australian advocacy for children's post-separation outcomes.

Europe & International

Co-Parenting International Network (Europe)

Various national chapters across EU member states. Loose federation.

Association Internationale Egalité Parentale

  • URL: https://www.acalpa.info/
  • What it does: French-language equal-parenting advocacy network.

How to engage

For most parents, the highest-value engagement is: 1. Join one organisation's mailing list for your jurisdiction. 2. Attend one local support meeting (FNF and PBB both run them regularly). 3. Track legislative reform efforts in your jurisdiction — equal-parenting / PA-recognition bills come up periodically.

For practitioners and researchers: PASG and ICSP are the international networks worth joining.

Note on framing

Different organisations frame parental alienation differently — some lean clinical (PASG, Family Separation Clinic), some lean fathers'-rights advocacy (NPO, ACFC, F4J), some lean child-safeguarding-first (CJE). Multiple framings exist for a reason; the framings aren't always aligned with each other. Read across rather than picking one.

The AntiAlienate framing is empathy-first, evidence-anchored, jurisdiction-agnostic, both-gender-targeted. We catalogue all credible perspectives without endorsement of any single advocacy orientation.

— Catalogued by Alan Markson · AntiAlienate.com · CC BY 4.0