Mom of three:"The New Family Law Act in Australia Mandates dual residency"

No, it doesn't.

Mom of three:"why have abuse rates nearly doubled?"

What is your evidence for this claim? The reports to DOCS may have increased, but this seems to be largely an artifact of both mandatory reporting rules and a culture of "arse-covering" that has evolved as a consequence of the growth of the DV industry. It is far better for a doctor, policeman, child-care worker, teacher, etc to report a suspicion that is later shown to be unfounded than to remain silent and have some blame for a case of abuse laid at their feet. The howls of outrage are loud and vituperative.

As someone else pointed out, the greatest risk factor for a child is to be estranged from a father and living with a mother and her de facto partner. The risk is even greater if the mother has no stable relationship, but a series of temporary ones. As this type of relationship has become more common, it would logically follow that abuse rates may have also risen.

I'm very sad to hear your son's story, but one swallow doesn't make a summer. If you are truly interested in stopping genuine abuse, I suggest you start by working to stop the false allegations that confuse the issue.

There is an old legal maxim that it is better that a thousand guilty people go free than a single innocent person be convicted. A high prevalence of false allegations make it more likely that this maxim will be applied.

Child neglect is the elephant in the room, yet it is not being mentioned. It is reasonable to ask why this is so when it is so often the existence of child neglect that provides the conditions for child abuse to occur.

Child abuse is an abomination, however it should not be permitted to become the tail that that wags the child neglect dog, which has happened in the past through the intervention of interest groups with secondary gain in mind. It is easy for children at risk to fall through the gaps where competing goals and priorities cause skews in the allocation of resources, frustrating efforts to coordinate and monitor available services.

Mom of 3 said
“a control freak will beat wife/kids/dog whatever..”
no sexual bias there
no assumption that ‘perpetrators’ are men

my ex-wife killed my daughters pets one at a time
every time she came on access
until she decided
she didn’t want to come on access anymore
(2 rabbits and a cat ‘disappeared’)

she beat our son leaving him bruised and bleeding
she used to suffocate him if he dared to cry
and on one occasion I came home to find her torturing him

his voice was weak and thin from begging for mercy
and his face was absolutely covered in dried tears
she never denied the abuse
but the court still gave her custody
even though both children ‘mysteriously’
said they wanted to live with me

the elephant in the room of child abuse
is the failure to recognize women as child abusers
every study that has ever been done
has recognized that most child abusers are women
yet in 40 years of “Public Awareness Campaigns”
about child abuse
there has never been a single case
where the perpetrator was portrayed as female

the perpetrator has always been portrayed as male
even though men represent
a minority of child abusers
no sexual bias there

the most powerful cultural acceptance of child abuse
in this culture
it is the acceptance of child abuse by mothers

No sexual bias, people abuse children most are adults, when children do it they call it bullying, the result is the same.

To anyone who has a child die of either murder or suiside you have my most sincere condolences, as I too have a child who could not stay within the system he was Ordered and he felt that he had no other alternative...that is the reason for suiside...the person feels traped. As for murder I assume the authorities finally worked out they were wrong, the perp in jail, and you appropriately compensated for failure of duty of care.

Use your grief and anger to STOP CHILD ABUSE not to hit out at another gender.

I disagree with your contention JamesH that because there are laws against child abuse therefore child abuse is not a norm. Sorry to disillusion you JamesH but sadly my experience teaches me that despite the laws being in place they are not enforced.
An example is when an underage girl has a child, our very own centrelink will provide her with enough money for her to choose to live with her adult statuary rapist. If the parent of this " child/mother" asks for information about the living arrangements of her daughter she is informed that this information is "confidential"

In other words despite there being clear laws in regards to statutory rape these laws are completely ignored and the rapists are not charged with a crime but protected by centrelink to repeat this crime whenever they desire. oi

Oi,

I will reiterate that child abuse is not an accepted NORM.

firstly this blog is an example that it is not acceptable.

Secondly the example you give, is I surmise where a teenager is involved with an older person.

So if the example you give is an accepted norm. WHY? then do people get upset about it, because if it was an accepted norm, nobody would get upset.

Sure there are people who do not get upset over such issues, and there are others who do get upset.