ABSTRACT Lawyers and child protection workers are actively engaged in the process of constructing and representing domestic violence and risk through the processes of collecting, documenting and presenting evidence. These processes frequently reflect the application of dominant gendered stereotypes commonly perpetuated within patriarchal societies through institutional practices. Such practices commonly include: constructing mothers who parent in the context of domestic violence as failing to protect their children, rendering invisible domestically violent men by collecting limited evidence about their perpetration patterns and fathering practices and decontextualising survivors’ mental distress and/or problematic substance misuse. Drawing on feminist theory and using the example of legal practice in the Queensland statutory child welfare department, this Comment argues that hegemonic gendered representations frequently disadvantage women mothering in the context of domestic violence. The Comment illuminates how domestic violence informed capacity-building activities catalysed practice improvements particularly in relation to how evidence is collected, documented and presented.

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证明更好的儿童保护实践：为什么家庭暴力的陈述很重要

摘要 律师和儿童保护工作者通过收集、记录和提供证据的过程积极参与构建和代表家庭暴力和风险的过程。这些过程经常反映通过制度实践在父权社会中普遍存在的占主导地位的性别刻板印象的应用。此类做法通常包括：将在家庭暴力中为人父母的母亲塑造成无法保护自己的孩子，通过收集有限的关于家庭暴力男子的犯罪模式和父亲做法的证据，以及将幸存者的精神困扰和/或有问题的药物滥用情况去背景化，从而使家庭暴力男子隐形. 本评论借鉴女权主义理论并以昆士兰法定儿童福利部门的法律实践为例，认为霸权的性别表征经常使家庭暴力背景下的女性母亲处于不利地位。该评论阐明了家庭暴力如何为能力建设活动提供信息，促进实践改进，特别是在如何收集、记录和展示证据方面。