Macdonald Gillian S
University of Bath, UK
Violence Against Women. 2016 Jun;22(7):832-52. doi: 10.1177/1077801215612600. Epub 2015 Nov 13.
Despite improved understanding regarding domestic violence, child welfare and child contact, and related policy developments, problems persist regarding how the family courts deal with fathers' violence in contested contact/residence cases. In the study reported here, analysis was undertaken of welfare reports prepared for the courts in such cases to investigate how and to what extent issues of domestic violence and children's perspectives on these issues were taken into account when making recommendations to the courts. Analysis found that despite evidence of domestic violence and child welfare concerns, contact with fathers was viewed as desirable and inevitable in the vast majority of cases.
尽管在家庭暴力、儿童福利和儿童探视方面的认识有所提高，且相关政策也有发展，但在有争议的探视/居住权案件中，家庭法院处理父亲暴力行为的方式仍存在问题。在本文所报告的研究中，对在此类案件中为法院准备的福利报告进行了分析，以调查在向法院提出建议时，家庭暴力问题以及儿童对这些问题的看法是如何以及在多大程度上被考虑在内的。分析发现，尽管有家庭暴力和儿童福利问题的证据，但在绝大多数案件中，与父亲的接触仍被视为可取且不可避免的。
