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How the family court is failing traumatised women

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Do You Think Shared Custody Will Make a Difference?

The best interests of the child actually incorporates shared parenting and equal parental responsibility. The women who you've been speaking to are ambivalent about it, I think it's an improvement but I think they have a wait and see attitude. They're no longer willing to accept on face value that some changes to the law will make a miraculous difference. A lot of them felt and indeed the ex-police officer who now works as a private investigator who worked mostly in domestic violence said that she believes it's the male centric nature of both our police forces and the courts. You know, Elizabeth Broderick said brilliantly once that sexism is like asbestos in the wall, we breathe it in.

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