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Post-Separation Contact and Domestic Violence: our 7-Point Plan for Safe[r] Contact for Children
Journal of Family Violence ( IF 2.897 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 , DOI: 10.1007/s10896-021-00256-7
Davina James-Hanman , Stephanie Holt

The impact of living with domestic violence and abuse has been recognised in policy and law in many jurisdictions as reaching the threshold of ‘significant harm’, with children’s exposure included in definitions of abuse and neglect that require mandatory reporting, alongside an emerging recognition of coercive control as central to both the perpetration of domestic violence and abuse, and how children experience it. Far from separation providing an end to this exposure, over two decades of research on child contact arrangements highlights how it can provide legitimate opportunities for abuse to continue. While the empirical evidence demonstrates that using violence against a partner impacts on men’s ability to parent their children pre-separation, and a burgeoning knowledge base and improved professional acumen appreciates the risk to children and mothers of ongoing and escalating abuse post-separation, the international practice of the presumption of contact continues to trump this empirical evidence in the overwhelming majority of cases. This not only fails to consider the risk that domestic violence and abuse poses to child safety, but serves further to marginalise children’s safety. Motivated by our collective experience across the domains of research, policy and practice, this commentary poses some difficult questions, challenging a conversation about both the risks and benefits of contact in the context of a history of domestic violence and abuse. In no particular order, this paper outlines our seven-point plan, which, based on the evidence, we believe could make a significant difference to safe(r) post-separation contact for children.



中文翻译:

分离后的接触与家庭暴力:我们为儿童提供安全[r]接触的7点计划

在许多司法管辖区,政策和法律已认识到家庭暴力和虐待生活的影响已达到“重大伤害”的门槛,虐待和忽视的定义中包括对儿童的暴露,这要求进行强制性报告,而对强制性的认识正在逐渐形成控制对于家庭暴力行为和虐待以及儿童的体验方式至关重要。在过去的二十年中,有关儿童接触安排的研究并未远离分居,而是结束了这种接触,这突显了它如何为继续遭受虐待提供合法机会。尽管经验证据表明,对伴侣使用暴力会影响男人在分居前为子女父母的能力,迅速发展的知识基础和专业的敏锐度认识到分居后儿童和母亲遭受不断加剧的虐待的风险,在绝大多数情况下,推定联系的国际惯例继续使这一经验证据胜过一切。这不仅没有考虑家庭暴力和虐待对儿童安全构成的风险,而且进一步使儿童的安全边缘化。基于我们在研究,政策和实践领域的集体经验的激励,这篇评论提出了一些棘手的问题,挑战了在家庭暴力和虐待历史背景下有关接触的风险和利益的对话。本文不以特定顺序概述了我们的七点计划,该计划基于证据,

更新日期:2021-02-19
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