Petition · past parliament
Make Contact Denial & Parental Alienation a Criminal Offence
Rejected
18 signatures
What the petition asks
Make Contact Denial & Parental Alienation a Criminal Offence
so I ask the Government or Parliament to make the following changes -
1. A legal presumption of 50/50 Shared Parenting and Child Support after separation.
2. Include Contact Denial and Parental Alienation within the government definition of domestic violence, and make these criminal offences.
3. Swift enforcement of court orders when one parent uses COVID19 to deny the other access to their children.
4. Legislation that introduces automatic parental responsibility for all fathers - even when they are not married.
1. A legal presumption of 50/50 Shared Parenting and Child Support after separation.
2. Include Contact Denial and Parental Alienation within the government definition of domestic violence, and make these criminal offences.
3. Swift enforcement of court orders when one parent uses COVID19 to deny the other access to their children.
4. Legislation that introduces automatic parental responsibility for all fathers - even when they are not married.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 29 Jun 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 3 Sep 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
18
Status
Rejected
Rejected
3 Sep 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.