For my sisters.

My reunification with my father was not a single event, but a gradual process shaped mostly by time, curiosity, and a very slow growing willingness to question the environment I was raised in. Looking back now, I understand that parental alienation is rarely obvious to the child experiencing it. For me, it felt somewhat normal... It was just the reality that I grew up in. My mother separated from my father when I was a baby. My two older sisters, my mother, and I moved away

Hi, I’m Meagan, founder of Aus. PA Advocacy. I’m a former alienated child from Western Australia, and parental alienation is not something I understand only through research, it is something I have lived. I grew up in a large family and experienced parental alienation across multiple family dynamics. As one of six siblings, I saw firsthand how the same environment could impact each child differently. Some of us responded with anger, some with loyalty, some with confusion, and

2026 Update: EMMM's Evolving Terminology Since my article was originally published, the Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation (EMMM) has shifted its terminology and framework. In 2026, EMMM announced that it would no longer use “Parental Alienation” as its primary terminology, describing it instead as an outcome-based label that does not fully capture the processes occurring within these families. EMMM now uses “Survival-Based Rejection: Parent-Child Trauma-Coerced Attachment and Al