"Who’s Speaking Out on White Ribbon Day for Mothers Abused by the Family Law system?"
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- Created: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:39
- Written by Alecomm2
White Ribbon Day tries to change the attitudes and behaviours of men who are violent towards women by sending out ambassadors bearing the message.
Are any of the ambassadors going to speak out about what’s happening to many women in the Family Law system? Are they going to try and explode the myth that women always lie about violence? That they make up all sorts of stories to get their kids away from abusers?
Mothers who try to protect their children are labelled ‘mad’, ‘delusional’, ‘too clever’, over-anxious, depressed, too loud, too emotional, too calm and variations on all these - and worse - insults.
All of this opinion may be generated by a court-appointed ‘expert’ who has spent, perhaps, one hour with the mother in question. Anyway, often the expert may be a specialist in child psychology but not qualified to assess adults.
Some decisions and attitudes are home-grown bias from the judge’s personal store. Or from that of the so-called independent Children’s Lawyer.
Justice for Children is particularly concerned about the belittling, bullying and plain inhumane treatment parents (mothers, mainly) and children often experience in the Family Court system.
Male and female judges and ‘single experts’ continue to wreak havoc on women and children.
There is little justice in the Family law system for children and mothers.
Secrecy protects the guilty and judges take advantage of their ‘discretion’ to make unreasonable and cruel decisions e.g removing children from their primary carer because she raised concerns about abuse or violence. Or even removing the child from their primary carer who had done no wrong because the child seemed a little ‘anxious’. Any child expert would know that an abused child often discloses their worry and fear to their protective parent but not to others, including their abuser.
Let’s hope there is a White Ribbon Ambassador brave enough to speak about this system which abuses women and children with impunity.
Because nobody else wants to know.
Not the media, not most politicians, not the Human Rights Commission, not the Ministers for Women or “Social Inclusion” at any level.
Keeping silent about this abuse is accepting it. “All that is required for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing”. Do something NOW!
Ariel Marguin - (0411) 852-452
