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Report
Financial Abuse: The Weaponisation of Child Support in Australia
Swinburne University of Technology and National Council of Single Mothers and their Children
03/2023
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Abstract
This report draws on post-separation lived experience to demonstrate the insidious ways that the Australian Child Support Scheme can be used and abused to jeopardise the financial safety of recipient parents and their children. This abuse primarily affects women, who continue to carry the burden of unpaid care work in Australia (and internationally) and are overrepresented as victim-survivors of family violence. In this report, we explore the ways that the Child Support Scheme can be used to financially abuse women, and the devastating impacts of this abuse on mothers’ and children’s lives. The findings show that separated mothers endure lasting impacts to their financial security, emotional and mental wellbeing, food security, and housing safety through child support-facilitated financial abuse, sometimes long after separation.
Details
- Title
- Financial Abuse: The Weaponisation of Child Support in Australia
- Creators
- Kay CookAdrienne ByrtRachael BurginTerese EdwardsAshlea CoenGeorgina Dimopoulos
- Publisher
- Swinburne University of Technology and National Council of Single Mothers and their Children
- Number of pages
- 75
- Identifiers
- 9781925761429; 991013093607702368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2023 the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report