What I was actually indicating was that in my experience the majority of parents who are in the courts opposing contact on the grounds of domestic violence are in fact women. There is no assertion that the Wall supports the proposition that men are always responsible for domestic violence, but I would surmise that the majority of those referred to in the report as feeling pressurised by their lawyers into agreeing contact were women. As we all know the majority of primary carers (for better or for worse) are women, regardless of the question of which gender is more predisposed to violence so they are most often on the receiving end of a contact application.

So, without making any comment about who actually perpetrates the greater proportion of domestic violence or child abuse – the assertion is that in the main the people with care of children and who are saying ‘the violence I have been subjected to puts my child at risk’ are women.

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Eighteen (18) of the twenty-nine (29) children who were murdered were not subject to any form of court proceedings.
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Of the eleven (11) children who were the subject of court proceedings, I am satisfied that eight (8) died as a result of parental actions which could not have been reasonably foreseen or prevented by the court
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THE FACTS:

Eleven (11) children killed in 10 years who were subject to court
proceedings.

Three (3) children killed in 10 years who were subject to court proceedings who may have been saved by a judge refusing a Consent Order.

NOT twenty-nine (29) as stated by Woman’s Aid.

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Women are NOT mostly the victims of Domestic Violence as a huge amount of studies worldwide clearly indicate.

Child abuse is mostly committed by mothers, not fathers.

This blinkered thinking that does not recognise that DV and abuse is a HUMAN issue, NOT a woman’s issue riddles the family court system. Leaving plenty of children in a vulnerable position both physically and emotionally.

This shows how institutionalised the prejudice and bigoted thinking is within the system.

Fathers are continually under pressure by the system and lawyers into agreeing that their children primarily reside with mother DV perpetrators/abusers etc because if they raise concerns it is nearly always guaranteed to be held against them. This is not even on the horizon for scrutiny.

Stopping/minimising the time a child see’s a fit parent by another parent is Domestic Violence (emotional abuse). It is also Child Abuse. Parents who stop/minimise/interfere with court orders for contact should be immediately be flagged as a probable risk to their children and as a DV perpetrator.