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dc.contributor.authorWilson, Trishen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:15:15Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:15:15Z-
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.identifier.citation(16), 2004-2005en
dc.identifier.issn1327-5550en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14797-
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCASA House (Centre Against Sexual Assault)en
dc.subjectFamily lawen
dc.subjectParentingen
dc.titleFather’s rights activists and public policyen
dc.title.alternativeWomen against violence : an Australian feminist journalen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid1158en
dc.subject.keywordJournal article/research paperen
dc.subject.keywordVictoriaen
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.description.notesThis article discusses the recent developments that fathers’ rights activists made after the publication of the Final Report of the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs Inquiry into child custody arrangements, which did not provide the results that they had anticipated. It aims to address misrepresentations about family law and social science research that fathers’ rights activists had submitted to the Committee. It looks at how fathers’ rights groups used child-centred or family-centred language to hide their agenda, and to promote presumptive joint physical custody of children upon family separation. It challenges the underlying assumption of their rhetoric that anyone who opposes ‘shared parenting’ also means they do not want fathers to be involved in their children’s lives. It argues that joint physical custody of children forces women to remain in abusive marriages as it will enable men to control their wives, and as a way to lower their child support obligations. It also describes the activities of both Australian- and US-based fathers’ rights groups, including defamatory pamphlets, a child abduction case, hatred and disregard for women on their message boards and email lists.en
dc.identifier.sourceWomen against violence : an Australian feminist journalen
dc.date.entered2005-07-28en
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