Postseparation Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Government Systems: A Survey of Australian Mothers' Experiences of
Kay Cook1, Adrienne Byrt1, Terese Edwards2
1Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
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.
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