Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Violence, abuse and the limits of shared parental responsibility
Other Titles:	Family Matters
Authors:	Parkinson, Patrick
Year:	2013
Citation:	No 92
Notes:	In the last thirty years, profound changes have occurred in family law all around the Western world. Whereas once family law was premised on the indissolubility of marriage, now a defining feature of family law in Western societies is the notion that parenthood is indissoluble. There has come to be a recognition that children generally benefit from the involvement of both parents in their lives - in the absence of serious violence, abuse or high conflict between parents - and therefore children’s relationship with both parents ought to be supported after separation. This article traces this trend and argues that though the indissolubility of parenthood is appropriate for most separated parents, limitations on joint parental responsibility are also appropriate in cases of family violence concerns and in cases where the parents have never lived together as a family.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17394
Physical description:	Pages 7
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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