Parental Alienation Center is a free educational resource for parents, children, family members, and the professionals who serve them. We translate the best clinical and legal knowledge on parental alienation into plain language a reader in distress can use. We do this without advertising, without referral fees, without partisan alignment, and without the urgency that has marked so much content in this space. Trust on this site is structural, not rhetorical: every commitment we describe here is verifiable through a public artifact, listed in plain sight.
What we are
We are an educational resource on parental alienation. Free to use. No paywall. No accounts required. No newsletter modal. No advertising. No referral fees. No commercial relationships with attorneys, clinicians, coaching businesses, or expert witnesses.
Our editorial scope covers the construct itself, the science behind it, the legal and clinical responses to it, the recovery work for families who experience it, and the long-term effects on children who grow up inside it. We treat parental alienation as a real and clinically definable construct while honoring the legitimate scientific debate around its specific historical labels. We refuse to weaponize the term in any direction.
Every long-form page on this site carries:
- A named author. We do not publish anonymous content. Every page is authored by Alex Buckles, PAC Founder, who is publicly accountable for what it says.
- A last-reviewed date, visible at the top.
- Inline citations to primary sources. We do not assert clinical or legal facts without naming the source.
- A clear statement that the page is general information, not clinical or legal advice.
These are structural commitments. They are how the site is built, not how the site is marketed.
What we are not
We are not a substitute for clinical or legal advice. Where readers need professional help, we direct them to qualified professionals in their jurisdiction.
We are not aligned with either side of a custody dispute. Both fathers and mothers experience parental alienation, and both fathers and mothers engage in alienating behaviors. We do not take partisan positions on which parent type alienates more or which is more often targeted. The empirical literature does not consistently support such positions, and partisan framing damages the readers we exist to help.
We are not a venting platform. Personal stories matter, and they appear in our content with permission and editorial framing. They are not the editorial backbone. The backbone is clinical and legal evidence with editorial care.
We are not a place to coach one parent against the other. Every page on this site is written so it can be read by either parent in a custody dispute without giving either side a tactical edge. If a resource on this topic starts handing out tactical advantage, that resource has joined the problem.
Who runs the site
Parental Alienation Center is founded and published by Alex Buckles. Alex built this site as a parent who has lived through parental alienation. That experience is why the site exists. It is also exactly why the site holds itself to the strictest sourcing and balance standards in this space: a founder with lived experience has every incentive to publish advocacy, so the protection against that is structural. Every clinical and legal claim is cited to a primary source a reader can check, every contested question presents the strongest version of the counter-position, and no page is written to give either parent in a dispute a tactical edge.
The publisher is responsible for the editorial direction of the site, for ensuring that every page meets the standards documented at Editorial Standards, and for appointing and maintaining the independent review board described on the Expert Review Board page.
The publisher is supported by a small editorial team of writers, researchers, and copy editors. Where contributors are named, they are real people with real credentials. We do not use stock photography to represent imaginary team members.
The scrutiny every page goes through, and the review board to come
Parental alienation is a high-stakes topic, so the bar for what publishes here is structural, not rhetorical. Before any page appears on this site it passes through a documented pipeline: it is drafted against a research corpus in which every source is labeled by its stance in the scientific debate (affirming, centrist, or critical), so balance is built in rather than bolted on; every clinical and legal claim must carry an inline citation to a primary source; contested questions must present the strongest version of the counter-position; pages that touch safety must carry domestic-violence caveats and crisis resources; and a validation pass checks sourcing, balance, readability, and reader-safety requirements before anything is approved. The full workflow is public at Methodology.
The next step is an independent expert review board. Once the site is live, we will appoint named reviewers, at minimum a licensed clinician with experience in this field and a licensed family-law attorney, against publicly documented selection criteria. Each reviewer’s name, credentials, and licensure verification will appear on the Expert Review Board page, their reviews will be recorded in each page’s metadata and rendered visibly at the top of the page, and their feedback will be binding. Reviewers will not control editorial direction, and will be free to refuse their name on anything they cannot stand behind.
If an error is found in any published page, the page is corrected, the correction is logged at our Corrections Log, and the date-modified is updated.
How we make editorial decisions
Our editorial method is documented in three public artifacts.
- Editorial Standards sets out our voice rules, source hierarchy, fact-check workflow, and corrections practice.
- Methodology walks through the brief, outline, draft, editorial review, validation, and publish pipeline behind every page.
- Citations and Sources lists the primary sources we rely on across the site, with our four-tier source hierarchy.
A page does not publish until it passes the workflow described in those three documents. If you find a claim on the site you cannot verify, please email us at corrections@parentalalienationcenter.com.
How we fund the site
The knowledge base is free, ad-free, and open-core. The editorial pages carry no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored content, no lead generation, no paywalls, and no upsells. The organization plans separate paid software offerings that help parents work through their specific situations, and 100 percent of profits from any paid offering are reinvested into the Parental Alienation Center mission. Those applications are never advertised or sold on the editorial pages. The full model is documented at Funding Disclosure.
Accessibility and languages
We build to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at the AA conformance target. If something on the site is not working for you, please tell us through the form on the Accessibility page and we will fix it.
The site is currently available in English. Spanish localization is scheduled for the second half of 2026, with additional languages following over the next 12 to 24 months. Localization is not pure translation; it includes a localized expert review board and locally relevant primary sources where appropriate. The localization roadmap is in our Methodology page.
For machine readers, every long-form page on this site is marked up with the relevant Schema.org types so that search engines and AI answer systems can correctly identify the page’s purpose, author, last-reviewed date, and citations. For context on the field itself, the American Psychological Association topic page on divorce and child custody is a useful starting point alongside our Learn pillar.
How to reach us
For editorial inquiries, press requests, content questions, or topic suggestions, please use the form on the Contact page. We aim to respond within two business days for most inquiries and within one business day for press requests.
For accessibility issues, please use the form at Accessibility.
For corrections, please email corrections@parentalalienationcenter.com. Every correction request is reviewed by the editorial team within five business days, and confirmed corrections are logged publicly at the Corrections Log.
A note to readers in distress
If you arrived here because something hard is happening in your family, we are sorry you are here, and we are glad you found us. The work in front of you may be long. There is a path through it. The pages on this site are written to help you understand where you are, what is happening, and what realistic next steps look like. Read at your own pace. There is no wrong order.
If you or your child are in crisis, please use the resources on the Crisis Support page. They are reachable from the footer of every page on this site.
