What Australia’s new law means for Hague Convention parental child-abduction cases
The Diplomat, 14 December 2022
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Australian courts to consider family and domestic violence threat in Hague convention cases
The Guardian, 12 December 2022
The dilemma mothers face when they become victims of violence abroad – child abduction or domestic violence
ABC News, 8 November, 2022
The go-to defense tactic of abusers in family court
A brief history of how claims of “parental alienation” have been used to minimize child abuse and domestic violence in the family court system throughout the globe.
Children forcibly returned to abusive settings under Hague Convention
Ella Hopkins, Each Other, 14 October 2022
Coercive Control in children’s and mother’s lives
Drawing on interviews with children and mothers who have experienced coercive control-based domestic violence, this ground-breaking book sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. Resistance happens in everyday life, not just in response to incidents of violence. Breaking free from coercive control is not a one-off event but a sustained battle for safety and recovery in which child and adult survivors need supports and professional interventions that work.
Coercive Control in the Courtroom: the Legal Abuse Scale (LAS)
This study sought to create a measure of legal abuse to show how IPV survivors may encounter their partners’ misuse of court processes to further enact coercive control.
The protection of children from violence in the context of intimate partner violence/domestic violence and custody & visitation
An overview of the international normative framework in relation to the protection of children from violence. It focuses on issues related to custody rights.
Published by WAVE: Women against Violence Europe Network