04/25/2026
Today is Parental Alienation Awareness Day, and North Dakota cannot continue looking away.
Every year, children in our state are harmed by custody conflict, unnecessary litigation, false narratives, and systems that too often reward division instead of protecting a child’s relationship with both fit parents.
Parental alienation is not simply one parent being “difficult.” It is the manipulation of a child’s heart and mind against a loving parent. It can create anxiety, depression, anger, identity struggles, broken relationships, and long-term emotional damage.
Children deserve better.
North Dakota leaders, courts, agencies, attorneys, and policymakers must be willing to confront the hard truth: our current system often allows conflict to continue far too long, costs families far too much, and leaves children carrying the damage.
When a fit, willing, and able parent is pushed out of a child’s life without evidence of harm, the child suffers.
When parenting time orders are ignored without meaningful accountability, the child suffers.
When false allegations are used as litigation tools, the child suffers.
When the legal system profits from prolonged conflict, the child suffers.
This is why Stand For Children - North Dakota continues to advocate for meaningful family court reform, including shared parenting protections, accountability for parenting-time interference, consequences for false reports, and policies that place children above profit, politics, and institutional self-preservation.
This is not a mother’s rights issue.This is not a father’s rights issue.This is a children’s rights issue.
Children have a right to love and be loved by both fit parents.
Today, we call on North Dakota leaders to stop protecting the status quo and start protecting children.
The time for silence is over.