A study involving 45 women who accused their partners of domestic abuse has highlighted serious health problems they have suffered as a result, they say, of biased family court proceedings.
One child had no contact after the parent accused of violence had abducted the child.43 out of 45 of the mothers' ex-partners had some form of contact with the children, even the ones with child sexual abuse convictions.
The remaining six women who were not accused said they were either threatened with PA or mischaracterized as medically or psychologically abnormal. The tendency for the courts to side with men, says Dr. Dalgarno, can be explained by lack of training for judges and court professionals around coercive control and domestic abuse and many believe, a culture of misogyny and woman and victim-blaming which is prevalent in society.courts often do not believe children when they report abuse.
"We believe that these conditions should be examined at scale in clinical research under the umbrella term that we have coined as court and perpetrator induced trauma . Dr. Dalgarno added,"Most abusers are not convicted most women don't even report to the police- this study is an important milestone in highlighting this problem.
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