Bee

I like purple, rain, and the sound of trains. I want to talk about family courts around the world, Misidentification, and the weaponisation of disabilities.

[Bee @YRUblack]

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[Bee @YRUblack]

@RheeThomas22 @davidgmandel What is Victoria doing differently? Is information sharing enough? How does information sharing work when families live across state borders? Who can tell? Family court in AU should be able to tell by now, and they should know what to do when they know. What’s going wrong?

[Bee @YRUblack]

@davidgmandel So many issues with psychiatric reports in family court. How often are they actually justified and useful?

[David Mandel @davidgmandel]

Because it helped the practitioners working with them #Pivot the focus to the perpetrator as being the responsible party, not the survivor, and also helped them articulate the survivors' protective efforts. We teach practitioners how to partner with survivors instead of blaming them. All this can help prevent unnecessary removals--this can work in both the child protection and family law space. Often they are using our Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool to help do this https://t.co/nR0bq1lmqG

[Jess Hill @jessradio]

We see the single mothers out there who are giving everything they’ve got to protect their kids, & to help them heal.

Who are forced to not only constantly outmanoeuvre their manipulative, destructive ex-partners, but also the systems that enable them.

Solidarity and respect.

[Surviving @Survivingtoday1]

How many people have had unnecessary ‘psychological’ assessments? Unnecessary because there had never been any prior concerns about their care of their children.

[Annabelle Daniel OAM @ADanielOAM]

This is not an uncommon #DFV survivor story.

For most of those who’ve experienced intimate partner abuse, there’s no firm definition between ‘pre-‘ & ‘post’ separation. The abuse may change form, but it continues unabated.

https://t.co/3YKhGNlstM

[Bee @YRUblack]

@natalyanderson @HeartbrokenNan1 I always support good training, but it is not enough.

Multiple times over years, in multiple proceedings, I have seen Judges with the best training in Australia, dismissing clear coercive control.

[David Mandel @davidgmandel]

I regularly recognize that both men and women can be violent and controlling, and the @SafeandTogether Model was designed to apply, and has been applied, to all situations including domestic violence in same sex relationships and women as primary aggressors in heterosexual relationships. And I make clear that we also need a gendered approach that takes into account the correlation of male violence against women with coercive control, higher rates of fear and control, higher homicide rates (5x higher according to USDOJ) and association between domestic violence and other forms of violence against women and girls, e.g. more combined impact on women and girls lives, and also gender double standards around parenting which allows male domestic violence perpetrators to avoid accountability and interventions in child protection and family court settings. We can also talk about how violence against women and girls is enabled and compounded by other forms of sexism, harassment, sexual violence, and other forms of sex and gender based discrimination. We can walk and chew gum at the same time,i.e. acknowledge male victims of domestic violence and also acknowledge the stark reality of gendered based problem of male violence against women and girls. We can talk about male survivors of childhood domestic violence, male victims of colonization and other forms structural racism and also talk about how some of those same men go on to perpetrated domestic violence. All this is possible..

[Peta D🦋 @joesbra]

Why does the Family Justice System mirror the Criminal Justice System in so many ways, such as the use of a court and a judge? Why are struggling parents/vulnerable mothers treated similarly to criminals with social workers acting like police officers towards them?

[Fighting for Justice for DA victims and Equality @jadewelshy]

I have a great issue with #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #rape #victims therapy notes being accessed.
This should be private when victims are working through their trauma.
In #FamilyLaw #FamilyCourt they kept opening my therapy records and giving them to my ex, #barristers, #solicitors, #judges, #cafcass people totally untrained in #trauma.
They kept opening them long before and after they ignored #DomesticAbuse.
Giving them to my ex was horrific and it makes you wonder what @MoJGovUK @GOVUK is thinking.
It gives an #abuser the knowledge of what triggers you. The knowledge of the deep seated trauma they've caused you and continue to with their actions. My ex knows that what he does significantly impacts me and I won't say anything.
@DrEmmaKatz highlights there being an unequal power dynamic. There is with family court aiding them along the way.
The opening of my entire medical records was a step too far as well.
I remember the psychologist saying that I was putting a boundary up and requesting only regulated experts read my records which as we had her on the case that would he her.
However family court #Judiciary ignored it.
The guardian from @MyCafcass treated my records like a phising exhibition and was bringing things up from when I was 9 and refused to discuss the abuse from my ex as it was historical and not helpful.
They opened my trauma therapy records and mental health records mid final hearing with no expert there. They trawled through gaslighting from my ex and washed over it and hammered me for following my treatment plan. I was distressed and anxious due to the final hearing so I'd made some calls as per my plan. They used that to say I was in a #mentalhealth crisis.
The guardian saw something on my records from 2 months earlier and decided to put in a child protection referral about my youngest son who wasnt party to proceedings.
Despite 3 experts not being concerned she spoke to none of them before her referral.

[Simon Katterl @SimonKatterl]

Calls for abolition and redress are growing.

Important work from @DrLindaSteele, Spivakovsky & Wadiwell call on the @DRC_AU to abolish all forms of restrictive practices & provide redress to those harmed by them

Echoes similar calls in #NotBeforeTime.

https://t.co/g0kQP0wDBY

[@survivorstrong3 @survivorstrong3]

Domestic violence is child abuse. Most child deaths known to authorities involve domestic abuse. Yet domestic abusers are NOT held accountable as parents for harming kids safety, wellbeing & CAUSING financial/ housing instability, disabilities, mental illness, substance disorders

[Heather Douglas @HDouglasLaw]

2023 update of the National Domestic and #FamilyViolence Bench Book released today. Online #OpenAccess - includes new case summaries, links to resources and new sections. Please share widely and #retweet @AIJAJudicial

[Janine Rees @JanineRees3]

My children and I endured this family court patriarchal torture and I’ve since spoken with hundreds of women who’ve experienced and are still experiencing family court discrimination and human rights abuse and torture. @AlboMP you can end this!

[We Rise @werisemovement]

If you are a victim of family court, please share something crazy, unlawful or just flat out corrupt your judge has said.

The world needs to know how much of a kangaroo court it is and how corrupt these criminals called judges and court actors really are! #familycourt

[Bee @YRUblack]

@VanessaBrownCan I think the degree of belief is probably different for different people, and can also fluctuate.

I think the same is true of those who enable, including those working in systems meant to protect.

Some of them know they are abusive or wrong, but believe it’s necessary or right.