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Open-Source Knowledge Base Releases 10-Page Primary-Source Evidence Corpus on Parental Alienation — Every Major Contested Claim Mapped to Original Sources

[CITY / DATE] — AntiAlienate.com today published a 10-part, ~55,000-word primary-source evidence base on parental alienation — the most comprehensive open-access compilation of peer-reviewed research, statutory text, judicial findings, and professional-body positions on the field's most contested claims.

The corpus, hosted at github.com/AntiAlienate/antialienate-knowledge/tree/main/evidence, addresses ten distinct evidentiary questions that arise in family-court cases, clinical practice, and policy debate:

  1. PA as Child Abuse — the strongest evidence for and against the proposition with verbatim DSM-5/ICD-11 code text and Brazil's Lei 12.318/2010 ("abuso moral") statutory language
  2. Mental-Health Outcomes — quantitative outcomes data including Chinese longitudinal samples (n=877, n=909) and Italian SCL-90-R (n=739 Italian adults)
  3. Reunification Therapy Outcomes — the empirical record across Family Bridges, TPFF, AB-PA, MMFI, OBFC, Transitioning Families. Finding: no programme has independent peer-reviewed efficacy data
  4. Forensic Operation in Courts — verbatim from Meier et al. 2020 (NIJ-funded 4,338-case dataset) and Silberg/Dallam 2019 (27 turned-around cases series)
  5. International Institutional Positions — WHO formally removed PA from ICD-11 index February 2020; APA and APSAC reject PA-as-diagnosis; UN Special Rapporteur Alsalem A/HRC/53/36 quoted verbatim
  6. Prevalence Claims Under Scrutiny — Bernet's widely-cited 740,000 US figure disclosed as a calculation chain (not an epidemiological measurement); Saini/Johnston/Fidler/Bala 2016: "to date there are no defensible estimates of the prevalence or incidence of the problem"
  7. Diagnostic Codes That DO Apply — V995.51 / V61.20 / V61.29 (DSM-5) and QE52.0 (ICD-11) verbatim, with the Bernet/Wamboldt/Narrow 2016 CAPRD framework as the doctrinal vehicle for defensible clinical formulation
  8. What Court Submissions Can Honestly Claim — 7 CAN-claim items with primary support; 6 CANNOT-claim items with refutation paths; sample report formulation + sample skeleton arguments for both sides
  9. Evaluator Training Asymmetry — Saunders 2011 NIJ study (n=465 evaluators; 38% never use validated DV screening); AFCC Model Standards verbatim
  10. Standard of Proof Analysis — Re B [2008] UKHL 35, Santosky v Kramer 455 U.S. 745 (1982), Daubert 509 U.S. 579 (1993), Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336, F.H. v McDougall 2008 SCC 53 all verbatim with sample skeleton arguments for UK / US / AU / ECHR

"The PA literature is contested. Some practitioners over-claim from the recognition side; others under-claim from the critique side. Both sides leave parents, lawyers, and judges without a reliable map of what the primary sources actually say," said Alan Markson, who catalogues the AntiAlienate.com project. "We've put the primary sources on the page — verbatim, cited, with URLs — so any reader can verify every claim themselves."

Editorial standard

Every load-bearing claim in the evidence corpus is cited to a primary source with a working URL. Where a primary text was not directly accessible at compilation, the citation is marked [secondary verification only]. Where a widely-cited figure could not be verified against the asserted source (e.g., the APSAC paraphrase tracked across PA literature; the Saini 2016 GRADE figure), the discrepancy is flagged for correction.

Distinct from existing PA references

Unlike paywalled academic databases or partisan advocacy publications, this corpus: - Represents both the recognition and critique camps with primary-source quotation - Is fully open-source under CC BY 4.0 — adapt, translate, share, build on - Documents honest gaps including: no clean US appellate reversal of a substantive PA finding, no independent peer-reviewed reunification-program outcome data, no defensible population prevalence estimate - Is companioned by 26 deeply-investigated case studies across 18 jurisdictions (UK / Canada / US / EU-ECHR / AU / DE / FR / ES / IT / NL / BR / MX / AR / PL / IN / SG / HK / ZA)

About AntiAlienate.com

AntiAlienate.com is an open knowledge initiative dedicated to supporting families navigating parental alienation. The site does not provide legal advice. Material is curated by independent contributors and reviewed against published guidance from PA-informed clinicians and family-law practitioners. All material is published under CC BY 4.0.

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Editor's note: a one-page fact sheet, the full repository link, primary-source citation list, and high-resolution image assets are available at github.com/AntiAlienate/antialienate-knowledge/tree/main/press.

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