{
  "version": "2026 public trust matrix",
  "updated": "2026-05-13",
  "labels": [
    {
      "label": "official",
      "display": "Official source",
      "meaning": "Government, court, statute, agency, or official process source."
    },
    {
      "label": "peer-reviewed-research",
      "display": "Peer-reviewed / research",
      "meaning": "Academic or professional literature; still requires context and limitations."
    },
    {
      "label": "public-report",
      "display": "Public report",
      "meaning": "Institutional, agency, commission, or public-interest report; check method and scope."
    },
    {
      "label": "professional-guidance",
      "display": "Professional guidance",
      "meaning": "Practice guidance from a professional body or official clearinghouse; not individualized advice."
    },
    {
      "label": "plain-language-explainer",
      "display": "Plain-language explainer",
      "meaning": "FOCaF explanation or synthesis, not primary authority."
    },
    {
      "label": "advocacy-opinion",
      "display": "Advocacy / proposal",
      "meaning": "A proposal, perspective, or reform claim that must not be treated as neutral fact."
    },
    {
      "label": "modeled-estimate",
      "display": "Modeled estimate",
      "meaning": "A modeled or inferential estimate, not proven live court outcomes."
    },
    {
      "label": "research-gap",
      "display": "Research gap",
      "meaning": "An honest statement that better data or comparative study is still needed."
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "claim": "Family-court delay can function as a harm multiplier when it extends children’s time inside conflict, uncertainty, unstable routines, economic strain, or unresolved safety questions.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/family-court-delay-intergenerational-harm/",
        "/sources/visual-explainers/",
        "/sources/what-we-know/"
      ],
      "source": "Family Court Delay and Intergenerational Harm; CDC ACEs; NCSC family justice performance measures; NBER divorce timing research; HHS/ACF permanency materials.",
      "source_type": [
        "official",
        "peer-reviewed-research",
        "public-report"
      ],
      "strength": "strong adjacent evidence / careful inference",
      "limitation": "There is no single public all-state private custody-delay dataset proving the exact harm of each additional month in every case.",
      "safe_wording": "Delay can multiply harm when it prolongs known child-risk conditions; safety fact-finding and urgent protection still matter."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Early childhood instability can be especially developmentally expensive because attachment, co-regulation, sleep, and predictable caregiving are still forming.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/family-court-delay-intergenerational-harm/",
        "/family-tools/routines-transitions/"
      ],
      "source": "Family Court Delay and Intergenerational Harm; CDC toxic-stress framework; NBER divorce timing research.",
      "source_type": [
        "official",
        "peer-reviewed-research"
      ],
      "strength": "strong adjacent evidence",
      "limitation": "General developmental research cannot decide what schedule or order is safest in a private family.",
      "safe_wording": "Young children often need extra predictability, safe routines, and careful transition support."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Restoration work after disparagement or contact refusal must start with safety screening and differential assessment, not a presumption that one label explains the child’s response.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/restoring-parent-child-relationships-after-disparagement-contact-refusal/",
        "/sources/visual-explainers/",
        "/sources/what-we-know/"
      ],
      "source": "Restoring Parent-Child Relationships After Disparagement and Contact Refusal; AFCC guidance; AACAP policy; child-welfare family-time guidance.",
      "source_type": [
        "professional-guidance",
        "peer-reviewed-research",
        "official"
      ],
      "strength": "moderate / safety-critical synthesis",
      "limitation": "This cannot diagnose alienation, estrangement, abuse, coercive control, fear, or trauma in a private family.",
      "safe_wording": "Relationship repair should be safety-first, staged, developmentally appropriate, and monitored."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Alienation-specific intervention evidence is weaker than the evidence for component treatments such as parenting interventions, trauma treatment, dyadic attachment work, and family attachment work.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/restoring-parent-child-relationships-after-disparagement-contact-refusal/",
        "/sources/what-we-know/"
      ],
      "source": "Restoring Parent-Child Relationships After Disparagement and Contact Refusal; PubMed-indexed treatment literature; WHO parenting guideline; TF-CBT/PCIT/ABFT/ABC/CPP sources.",
      "source_type": [
        "peer-reviewed-research",
        "professional-guidance"
      ],
      "strength": "research limitation / careful synthesis",
      "limitation": "Component-treatment evidence is clinically useful but still indirect for court-referred alienation/contact-refusal cases.",
      "safe_wording": "Use evidence-supported components and do not oversell named reunification methods beyond the evidence."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Maine public education pages should frame parent-child relationship, best interest, due process, and official process information neutrally rather than as anti-mother or anti-father messaging.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/maine-parental-rights-best-interest-family-court-process/",
        "/official-doors/",
        "/maine/start-here/"
      ],
      "source": "Maine Parental Rights, Best Interest, and Family Court Process; Maine statutes and Maine Judicial Branch public resources.",
      "source_type": [
        "official",
        "plain-language-explainer"
      ],
      "strength": "official/legal process grounding with public-language synthesis",
      "limitation": "FOCaF cannot provide legal advice, strategy, or case-specific interpretation.",
      "safe_wording": "Use neutral parent-child contact, fit-parent, child safety, due-process, and official/legal-information framing."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Children should not be used as messengers, evidence carriers, record keepers, or decision makers in adult conflict.",
      "page_used": [
        "/kids/",
        "/kids/grades-9-12/rights-roles-explorer/",
        "/resources/",
        "/family-tools/routines-transitions/"
      ],
      "source": "FOCaF child-burden boundary; child development and support-first public education principles.",
      "source_type": [
        "plain-language-explainer",
        "professional-guidance"
      ],
      "strength": "child-first public-education principle",
      "limitation": "Individual safety plans may require professional guidance and specific boundaries.",
      "safe_wording": "Adults handle adult problems; children and teens can use safe support without carrying the dispute."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Support-first tools should be easier to find than court-first escalation when there is no immediate safety emergency or legal deadline.",
      "page_used": [
        "/",
        "/maine/start-here/",
        "/resources/",
        "/family-tools/own-records/"
      ],
      "source": "FOCaF support-first public education plan and practical family support materials.",
      "source_type": [
        "plain-language-explainer"
      ],
      "strength": "program design / public utility principle",
      "limitation": "Support-first does not mean ignoring emergencies, abuse, coercive control, active orders, or real deadlines.",
      "safe_wording": "Start with the least escalated safe step; use official/legal doors when safety, orders, or deadlines require it."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Municipality and county pages must provide unique local value before publication.",
      "page_used": [
        "/maine/",
        "/maine/counties/",
        "/sources/claim-matrix/"
      ],
      "source": "FOCaF no-doorway SEO governance standard.",
      "source_type": [
        "plain-language-explainer"
      ],
      "strength": "site governance rule",
      "limitation": "Local pages still require source review and local utility before full statewide scaling.",
      "safe_wording": "Local pages should include real official/support routing and county context, not swapped-town boilerplate."
    },
    {
      "claim": "ProSe or reform projections should be clearly labeled as modeled, proposal-based, or advocacy estimates unless they are proven live court outcomes.",
      "page_used": [
        "/sources/claim-matrix/",
        "/campaign-boundary/",
        "/rfc/"
      ],
      "source": "FOCaF campaign-boundary and source-strength policy.",
      "source_type": [
        "modeled-estimate",
        "advocacy-opinion"
      ],
      "strength": "boundary rule",
      "limitation": "Modeled estimates are not proof of current court outcomes or guaranteed savings.",
      "safe_wording": "Describe projections as modeled or proposed unless they are verified with live outcome data."
    },
    {
      "claim": "FOCaF Maine process pages should use neutral parent-child-contact, child-safety, best-interest, due-process, and official/legal-information framing rather than parent-vs-parent messaging.",
      "page_used": "/maine/parent-child-contact-process/",
      "source": "Maine Parental Rights, Best Interest, and Family Court Process; Maine Judicial Branch public materials; FOCaF safety boundaries",
      "source_type": "official/legal process grounding with public-language synthesis",
      "strength": "careful public-education framing",
      "limitation": "FOCaF cannot provide legal advice or decide private facts.",
      "safe_wording": "Use neutral, safety-aware process language and route legal questions to official or qualified legal help."
    },
    {
      "claim": "Basic-needs stabilization can be a support-first step before conflict escalates when there is no immediate safety emergency or deadline.",
      "page_used": "/maine/basic-needs-stability/",
      "source": "FOCaF support-first public utility plan; 211 Maine and official public support doors",
      "source_type": "public support routing",
      "strength": "practical support principle",
      "limitation": "This does not replace emergency, legal, medical, crisis, or advocacy help.",
      "safe_wording": "Stabilize basics first when safe; use official/legal/crisis doors promptly when needed."
    },
    {
      "claim": "School and provider communication should be short, factual, routine-focused, and child-centered rather than case-file dumping or asking children to carry adult conflict.",
      "page_used": "/maine/school-stability/",
      "source": "FOCaF school/provider support tools; child-burden boundary; preserved research on child stability and delay harms",
      "source_type": "plain-language support tool",
      "strength": "child-first public-education principle",
      "limitation": "Specific education, medical, safety, or legal issues may require qualified professional support.",
      "safe_wording": "Share only what helps support the child’s routine, attendance, transportation, and wellbeing."
    }
  ],
  "latest_batch": "PASS297-PASS299"
}