Cook Kay, Byrt Adrienne, Edwards Terese, Burgin Rachael
Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Single Mother Families Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Violence Against Women. 2025 Oct;31(12-13):3355-3379. doi: 10.1177/10778012241280057. Epub 2024 Sep 19.
Financial abuse is a form of violence that can extend well beyond intimate partner relationship breakdown. A survey of 540 Australian separated parents examined how financial abuse was perpetrated, with a focus on child support and other government systems. Women reported that their ex-partners minimized and withheld child support payments to inflict direct financial harm, while interactions between the family court, taxation, and benefit payment systems were taken advantage of to threaten or control them. Findings revealed how the mandatory and complex Australian child support system provided perpetrators with a useful means of perpetrating financial abuse across households.
经济虐待是一种暴力形式，其影响范围可能远远超出亲密伴侣关系破裂的范畴。一项针对540名澳大利亚分居父母的调查研究了经济虐待是如何实施的，重点关注子女抚养费及其他政府体系。女性报告称，她们的前任伴侣减少并扣留子女抚养费以造成直接经济伤害，同时利用家庭法庭、税务和福利支付体系之间的互动来威胁或控制她们。研究结果揭示了澳大利亚强制性且复杂的子女抚养体系如何为施虐者提供了一种在家庭间实施经济虐待的有效手段。
