Equal shared parental responsibility and shared care post-return to Australia under the Hague Child Abduction Convention

This article explores the outcomes experienced by abducting primary carer mothers and their children post-return to Australia under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.1 The circumstances faced by families that experience international parental child abduction are examined by considering how part VII of the Australian Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) is applied to resolve parenting disputes post-return. At present, the statutory criteria found in part VII encourage an equal shared parental responsibility and shared care parenting approach.2 This emphasis aligns children’s best interests with collaborative parenting3 and their parents living within close geographical proximity of each other to facilitate the practicalities of the approach.4 Arguably, these statutory criteria guide the exercise of judicial discretion to determine a child’s best interests towards a parenting arrangement that is incompatible with the lifestyle and functional characteristics of these families.

Re-examining habitual residence as the sole connecting factor in Hague Convention child abduction cases

This article critiques the usefulness of habitual residence as the sole connecting factor in Hague Convention child abduction cases. This is achieved by examining the quality of this jurisdiction in light of changes in the gender dynamics underpinning international parental child abduction and the transnational family phenomenon. Arguably, the child’s habitual residence as a home environment of the nature anticipated by the Convention’s drafters is an increasingly outdated construct. This is due to an increase in both the number of abducting primary-carer mothers, and their families’ growing mobility. Judicial determinations of habitual residence made during Conven- tion return proceedings are entrenched in the state-centric paradigm. This paradigm is becoming increasingly incompatible with the lives of families which experience international parental child abduction.

A study of outcomes post-return to Australia under the Hague Child Abduction Convention for abducting primary-carer mothers and their children

This article reports the findings of an empirical study of outcomes experienced by abducting primary-carer mothers and their children post-return to Australia under the Hague Child Abduction Convention. The study specifically focused on legal and factual outcomes post-return to Australia as the child's habitual residence. The study contributes an original critique of the Convention's operation by examining the collective operation of Convention return proceedings and Pt VII proceedings under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) post-return. Convention return proceedings, and the resolution of the substantive parenting dispute post-return to Australia, are not distinct stages operating in isolation. Viewing them as such is a purely theoretical exercise divorced from the reality of the lives of transnational families. Arguably, a better measure of the Convention's success is the outcomes it produces as part of the entire system designed to address the contemporary problem of international parental child abduction. When a child is returned to Australia this system includes the operation of Australian family law.

International parental child abduction.

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International parental child abduction.

"Revised May 1992"--P. [2] of cover.

International parental child abduction.

Shipping list no.: 93-0334-P.

International parental child abduction.

Shipping list no.: 95-0113-P.

Conflicts of EU courts on child abduction : the reality of Article 11(6)-(8) Brussels IIa proceedings across the EU

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Mala gente que camina : De la expropiación a la reconstrucción de la memoria

Las indagaciones de la última década sobre el robo de niños en la dictadura franquista y el silencio por parte de los gobiernos democráticos españoles, han despertado el interés tanto de historiadores como de escritores. Quienes no vivieron directamente el exterminio físico e ideológico del régimen dictatorial, recomponen las identidades que quedaron sepultadas en fosas comunes, pero también esclarecen las apropiaciones por parte del Estado, para que aquellos que aún viven engañados puedan saberlo. Benjamín Prado con Mala gente que camina, se inscribe en el conjunto de autores que trabajan por escribir una memoria histórica capaz de llenar los vacíos que han dejado las generaciones anteriores

Mala gente que camina : De la expropiación a la reconstrucción de la memoria

Las indagaciones de la última década sobre el robo de niños en la dictadura franquista y el silencio por parte de los gobiernos democráticos españoles, han despertado el interés tanto de historiadores como de escritores. Quienes no vivieron directamente el exterminio físico e ideológico del régimen dictatorial, recomponen las identidades que quedaron sepultadas en fosas comunes, pero también esclarecen las apropiaciones por parte del Estado, para que aquellos que aún viven engañados puedan saberlo. Benjamín Prado con Mala gente que camina, se inscribe en el conjunto de autores que trabajan por escribir una memoria histórica capaz de llenar los vacíos que han dejado las generaciones anteriores

Mala gente que camina : De la expropiación a la reconstrucción de la memoria

Las indagaciones de la última década sobre el robo de niños en la dictadura franquista y el silencio por parte de los gobiernos democráticos españoles, han despertado el interés tanto de historiadores como de escritores. Quienes no vivieron directamente el exterminio físico e ideológico del régimen dictatorial, recomponen las identidades que quedaron sepultadas en fosas comunes, pero también esclarecen las apropiaciones por parte del Estado, para que aquellos que aún viven engañados puedan saberlo. Benjamín Prado con Mala gente que camina, se inscribe en el conjunto de autores que trabajan por escribir una memoria histórica capaz de llenar los vacíos que han dejado las generaciones anteriores

The father's story of Charley Ross, the kidnapped child : containing a full and complete account of the abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the home of his parents in Germantown, with the pursuit of the abductors and their tragic death; the various incidents connected with the search for the lost boy; the discovery of other lost children [etc.] /

Mode of access: Internet.

Child molestation and abduction : what parents can do.

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A pilot study of a family focused, psychosocial intervention with war-exposed youth at risk of attack and abduction in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Rural communities in the Haut-Uele Province of northern Democratic Republic of Congo live in constant danger of attack and/or abduction by units of the Lord's Resistance Army operating in the region. This pilot study sought to develop and evaluate a community-participative psychosocial intervention involving life skills and relaxation training and Mobile Cinema screenings with this war-affected population living under current threat. 159 war-affected children and young people (aged 7-18) from the villages of Kiliwa and Li-May in north-eastern DR Congo took part in this study. In total, 22% of participants had been abduction previously while 73% had a family member abducted. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress reactions, internalising problems, conduct problems and pro-social behaviour were assessed by blinded interviewers at pre- and post-intervention and at 3-month follow-up. Participants were randomised (with an accompanying caregiver) to 8 sessions of a group-based, community-participative, psychosocial intervention (n=79) carried out by supervised local, lay facilitators or a wait-list control group (n=80). Average seminar attendance rates were high: 88% for participants and 84% for caregivers. Drop-out was low: 97% of participants were assessed at post-intervention and 88% at 3 month follow-up. At post-test, participants reported significantly fewer symptoms of post-traumatic stress reactions compared to controls (Cohen's d=0.40). At 3 month follow up, large improvements in internalising symptoms and moderate improvements in pro-social scores were reported, with caregivers noting a moderate to large decline in conduct problems among the young people. Trial Registration clinicalTrials.gov, Identifier: NCT01542398.