Child Abuse and Family Law

Child Abuse and Family Law Understanding the Issues facing human service and legal professionals by Thea Brown, Renata Alexander This book is courageous, ground breaking and extremely comprehensive. The authors have extensive experience with the subject matter and have brought that experience to bear in a very effective way. It is courageous first, because it swims against the current tide of an assumption that a relationship with both natural parents is invariably in the best interests of a child. This is not an assumption based upon established research, but rather an emotional assumption that has been assiduously fed by lobby groups to the point where the Federal Parliament has amended the Family Law Act in such a way as to give legislative force to it and, I believe, has therefore placed many of our children in much greater danger than was the case previously.