AntiAlienate — The Open-Source Highway for Parental Alienation¶
If you're dealing with parental alienation — or working with someone who is — this repository is the central hub of legal references, practical templates, peer-reviewed research, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction case law, deeply-investigated case studies, influencer reference pages, community routing, step-by-step playbooks, glossary, the field's real debate, and shareable infographics. Open-source. Free. No paywall. CC BY 4.0.
The goal: be the single most comprehensive open-source reference on parental alienation. The highway every other resource routes through.
Start here¶
| If you are… | Go to |
|---|---|
| A parent who just lost contact | /playbooks/first-90-days.md for week-by-week steps, then /templates/ for the artefacts you need |
| Preparing for a court hearing | /playbooks/court-prep-checklist.md, /templates/court-bundle-structure.md, /landmark-cases/ |
| Facing a forensic evaluation | /playbooks/evaluator-selection.md — how to pick, vet, and object |
| Accused of alienating | /playbooks/accused-of-alienation.md |
| In a cross-border / international case | /playbooks/cross-border-hague.md |
| In a case involving DV and PA allegations | /playbooks/pa-and-domestic-violence.md |
| Vetting / working with a lawyer | /playbooks/working-with-lawyer.md |
| Needing the vocabulary | /glossary/ — definitions, what to use, what to avoid |
| Trying to understand the field's actual debate | /the-debate/recognition-vs-critique.md |
| Wanting to read real cases, not citation lists | /case-studies/ — 8 cases deeply investigated, named participants, journalism trail |
| Looking for peer support | /community/ — Reddit subreddits + advocacy orgs (intl) |
| Researching the field | /resources/research-databases.md, /resources/key-books.md, /influencers/, /case-law/2024-2026-rulings.md |
| Wanting shareable educational material | /open-source/infographics/ — 38 purpose-built reference cards |
All sections¶
| Section | What's there | Approx count |
|---|---|---|
| /playbooks/ | Step-by-step guides — first 90 days, court prep, lawyer work, reunification, teens, documentation, accused, cross-border, grandparent, evaluator selection, DV-overlap, step-parent | 12 + index |
| /case-studies/ | Real PA cases deeply investigated — named participants, journalism trail, doctrinal arcs (UK / Canada / US / EU / AU) | 8 + index |
| /templates/ | Practical artefacts — letters, log templates, prep briefs, communication patterns | 9 + index |
| /resources/ | Where the evidence lives — research databases + the key-books reading shelf | 2 + index |
| /glossary/ | PA vocabulary — definitions, what to use in court, what to avoid | 1 + index |
| /the-debate/ | Recognition vs critique — both camps mapped honestly with strongest works | 1 + index |
| /jurisdictions/ | Per-country / per-US-state legal-reference pages | 30 |
| /landmark-cases/ | Foundational cases everyone should be able to cite | Curated |
| /case-law/2024-2026-rulings.md | Cross-jurisdiction recent rulings consolidation | ~60 |
| /research/ | Scholarly and research resources | Curated |
| /influencers/ | The researchers, clinicians, practitioners shaping the field (recognition + critic + middle) | 19 |
| /community/ | Reddit subreddits + advocacy orgs (US/UK/AU/DE/FR/ES/AR/Intl) | 3 + many links |
| /open-source/infographics/ | Shareable knowledge cards — vocabulary, statistics, frameworks, tactics | 38 + index |
| /tools/legal-research.md | Free authoritative legal databases | 12 |
| /publishers/ | Verified Upstream Publishers we mirror or credit | 2 |
| /digest/ | Daily auto-accumulated finds from PubMed / CrossRef / CourtListener / BAILII / Reddit | Rolling |
| /press/ | Press kit for the open-source launch (draft, pre-distribution) | 5 |
How this is maintained¶
A background agent polls public legal-research sources every 25 minutes (PubMed, CrossRef, CourtListener, BAILII, Reddit), dedupes against a known-finds registry, and pushes new material into /digest/. Case studies, playbooks, value cards, templates, jurisdiction pages, influencer pages, glossary entries, debate analysis, and case-law consolidations are added on a rolling basis.
The repo grows continuously. If you bookmark only one URL: this one.
Editorial position¶
PA is a contested field. This repository represents both recognition-camp and critique-camp literatures and figures. We do not take a position on the contested questions — those are for clinicians, courts, and policy bodies to resolve. Our job is to make the field navigable. See /the-debate/ for our reasoning.
Verified Upstream Publishers¶
We credit independent publishers whose work we mirror or draw from. Crediting upstream sources openly is how a small field grows into a serious reference.
- James Christianson — How I Got Custody (Seattle, WA) — per-jurisdiction legal-reference catalogue.
- Prosei AI — Research-tool integration with 12 free legal databases.
Contributing¶
Issues and PRs welcome on: - Additional case-study investigations from your jurisdiction (especially with named participants and journalism trail) - Additional playbooks for situations not yet covered - Glossary terms missing or in need of refinement - Additional jurisdictions - Additional templates — translations, jurisdictional adaptations - New value cards - Foundational cases we've missed - Additional influencers / community resources / books for the resources shelf - Critiques of any framing on /the-debate/ — both camps welcome - Corrections, link rot, primary-source verification of unlinked citations
License & attribution¶
CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted on individual files. Attribution: AntiAlienate.com.
— Catalogued by Alan Markson · AntiAlienate.com · CC BY 4.0