Stop Allowing Abusive Partners to revictimise their family via the Family Court
The Guardian published an article on 15th September entitled, ‘MPs call for end to abusive men using courts against families,’ by Sandra Laville. The suggestion within the article that MPs are calling on the government to carry out a review of family courts to stop them being used as a manipulative tool by abusive parents to further exert power and control over their ex partners and to end the revictimisation of both the ex-partner and children. Laville writes, ‘the courts needed to ensure there was safe child contact, not contact at any cost.’ I’ve accompanied women to court and have heard accounts from our women here in North Warwickshire of the trauma of having to face an abusive man after…