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Research
Australian Government’s Evaluation of the 2006 family law, December 2009
In 2006 Australia adopted a resumption of 50/50 shared care unless safety concerns were identified. Most professionals working with families involved in separation and divorce feel these changes have benefited fathers the most.
Protecting a childs emotional development when parents divorce Peter Ernest Haiman, Ph.D. New Beginnings, a publication of La Leche League International, 1994 now on line 2009
Research that shows that the disturbance of a child’s emotional attachment to a primary caregiver (almost always the mother) in the first six years of life can create problems in childhood, adolescence, and adult life.
Thorough and well respected research, looking at the incidence and impact of domestic violence on women and men. Shows women experience more severe and more frequent abuse, and are more likely to live in fear. The research concludes that ‘the context of fear is an important element in the understanding of domestic violence as a pattern of coercive control’.
Domestic Violence, Safety and Family Proceedings, HMICA, 2005
Many women and children now live with the consequences of poor intervention by Cafcass.
Findings that non-resident parents (mainly fathers) were mainly successful in getting the type and amount of contact they wanted, even though most resident parents (mainly mothers) who objected to contact raised serious welfare concerns.
How motherhood causes lasting damage to women’s earning capacity.