PAPA – Parents Against Parental Alienation – was founded in George, South Africa, by Angelique Kleynhans and Johan Swart. What began as a small support group for parents being systematically alienated from their children quickly exposed a larger national crisis. The patterns were repeating — across families, courts, and institutions — with devastating psychological consequences.

Within months, the group expanded into a national movement. Today, PAPA unites parents, grandparents, educators, professionals, and concerned citizens around one uncompromising truth: Parental Alienation is Child Abuse.

This is not a custody dispute. It is a structural assault on the identity of a child — a campaign of erasure carried out through manipulation, silence, and coercion. PAPA confronts that reality without flinching.

We exist to expose the truth, protect the child, and support the parent who refuses to disappear. This movement was born from pain, but it is led by principle. We are not here to inflame conflict. We are here to end abuse.