Season’s Greetings from the Family Preservation Alliance
As we enter the holiday season and prepare for the New Year, the Family Preservation Alliance reflects on the shared responsibility we hold toward children and families across the United States. This is a time to honor resilience, renew hope, and recommit ourselves to building systems that place children’s well-being, stability, and dignity at the center of family life.
Across our nation, there is growing recognition that children thrive when they are supported by meaningful, loving relationships with both parents and extended family—when it is safe and appropriate. Momentum continues to build for family-centered reforms that promote cooperation, fairness, and shared responsibility, rather than conflict and division.
Equal protection under the law must extend fully into family courts. This principle is foundational to our constitutional values and is inseparable from children’s rights, parental responsibility, and due process. When systems fail to safeguard these principles, families suffer—and children pay the highest price.
In the United States, millions of children experience family separation each year. For too many, that separation leads to prolonged conflict, loss of parental relationships, and emotional harm. Parental alienation, obstruction of healthy co-parenting, and misuse of systems intended to protect families represent serious challenges that demand acknowledgment, research, and reform. These dynamics are not political—they are human, and they affect children across every community, culture, and socioeconomic background.
Progress requires leadership, courage, and collaboration. It requires listening to research, elevating lived experience, and advancing trauma-informed, child-focused solutions that strengthen families rather than fracture them. Equality before the law must be matched by accountability, responsibility, and compassion in practice.
As we look ahead to the coming year, we are grateful for the advocates, professionals, policymakers, parents, and community leaders across the United States who are working—often quietly and tirelessly—to protect children, preserve family bonds, and promote healing. Together, we can advance reforms that honor both children’s rights and parental responsibilities, while reducing unnecessary harm within family systems.
Women and men, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters all deserve fairness, opportunity, and protection. When we choose to lead with integrity and evidence, we help ensure that families can move forward with dignity and hope.
Thank you to everyone who has stood with us in this work. Your commitment makes progress possible.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a joyful Kwanzaa, a peaceful holiday season, and a hopeful, healing New Year.
With gratitude and resolve,
The Family Preservation Alliance