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A look into media and academic attitudes to children and child protection, and why they are failing to prioritise children.
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“Family Annihilators” - The Dreadful Definition (opens the original)
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The ongoing discussion around Lindsay Clancy continues to expose some truly bizarre ways in which significant numbers of people - in this case, significant numbers of women - look at justice issues. Rather than simply being one more voice cataloguing these, I want to look at a specific underlying reason.One of the problems we have in discussing issues of justice around domestic violence killings is the definitions of the terms that are used, which then shape the discourse. The first that needs t
The Perilous State of Maternal Mental Health (opens the original)
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None of the women rallying behind Lindsay Clancy are talking about her children.That is the thing that struck me, once I’d looked at the commentary, the GoFundMe page, and the hundreds gathered outside the courthouse: not the fact of the support itself, which is understandable enough on its own terms, but its total, unbroken silence on the three lives it was implicitly weighing against hers. Nobody is saying, “that could have been my kids — thank God it wasn’t, and we need to help struggling wom
July Was a Terrible Month for Children (opens the original)
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Of the 17 children killed by violence in Australia so far this year, 8 were allegedly killed by women — 7 mothers and a sister — and 10 of the 17 were boys. You would not know this from reading the coverage. The dominant media framing this year has been “violence against women”, with child deaths folded in as an extension of that story rather than examined on their own terms. That framing erases male victims, erases female perpetrators, and gives us a distorted picture of what’s actually driving
“Believe All Women” Trumps Children’s Justice (opens the original)
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As I write this, the headlines are still on the front page of MSN:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="150" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-UA6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%
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