Welcome to PATH
Support and clarity for fathers navigating parental alienation.
Most fathers who find their way here didn’t expect to be here.
You did what you were supposed to do. You tried to be reasonable. You assumed that if you stayed calm, followed the rules, and focused on your children, things would work themselves out.
Instead, the situation became more confusing, more hostile, and more destabilizing over time. Communication broke down. Your relationship with your children began to change in ways that didn’t make sense. The systems that were supposed to help felt slow, ineffective, or even harmful.
If this feels familiar, you’re not alone — and you’re not imagining it.
Parental alienation is deeply counterintuitive. The behaviors don’t look the way most people expect abuse or manipulation to look. The normal instincts that work in healthy conflict often make things worse here. And the family court system is largely unequipped to recognize or respond to it in a way that protects children or parents from harm.
PATH exists because this gap — between lived reality and institutional response — causes enormous, unnecessary damage. Before anything else, this is a place to slow things down, regain clarity, and understand what you’re actual
Why this feels so backward
In healthy conflict, transparency, cooperation, and good faith usually lead to resolution. Most people — especially fathers — assume those same instincts apply here.
Parental alienation doesn’t work that way. The behaviors are subtle, indirect, and often masked as concern, protection, or “just following the rules.” When you respond the way a reasonable person would expect to respond, the dynamic often escalates instead of resolving.
This is why so many well-intentioned fathers find themselves trapped in cycles of confusion, self-doubt, and reactive decision-making. It isn’t because they’re doing nothing — it’s because they’re doing the wrong things for this specific problem, without realizing it.
You are not weak for being confused by this.
You are not failing because your instincts haven’t worked.
And you are not alone in this experience.
