Welcome to Deleting Dad
Deleting Dad is a UK-based, community-led project collecting the stories of fathers targeted in parental alienation.
We also welcome voices from their grown-up children (18+ only) and wider family (especially grandparents deleted from grandchildren’s lives).
If you are a targeted father, a grandparent who’s lost contact with your grandchildren, or a grown-up child who lost years with your father, we invite you to share your anonymous experience.
Deleting Dad will collect these stories for a published book — giving voice to the erased and exposing the full harm of parental alienation.
Stories are edited for anonymity, to best protect fathers, family and children.
What is the aim of Deleting Dad?
Four clear aims guide our project:
1. Therapy – Healing comes from writing and sharing your story.
2. Community – Your voice reaches and supports other fathers, grown-up children, and families enduring the same pain. There are so many of us — and sadly, there will be more.
3. Policy – Increase awareness of parental alienation among key agencies: schools, family courts, and children’s services.
4. Children – Children are the real victims of this psychological abuse. By amplifying fathers, grown-up children, and wider family, Deleting Dad indirectly helps more children suffering in silence.
Your story can make a difference.
Why the focus on fathers?
Deleting Dad focusses on fathers because the majority of parents targeted in confirmed parental alienation cases are fathers.
While we acknowledge that fathers can be alienating parents and some mothers are the targeted parent, the majority of targeted parents in the UK are fathers. Our focus is on a specfic, statistically prevalent experience to ensure the voices of those targeted parents are heard.