A new landmark report from Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety, in partnership with the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, analyses instances of filicide from 2010 to 2018 within the context of domestic and family violence.Filicide or the deliberate act of parents or parental figures killing their children is a tragic crime that experts say has not been adequately studied or addressed in Australia.
“One of the things we found was that almost half the children killed by a parent were under two-years-old. So we're talking about children that they're most vulnerable in terms of their requirements for trust and care from parents, but we're also thinking about where are people coming into contact with these children in a way that might be able to help keep them safe.”
40 per cent of filicide perpetrators across the eight years were women but in instances related to family violence that went down to 32 per cent. She says women's relatively high representation in cases of filicide compared to other forms of violence can partially be a result of some mental health factors as well as responses to unwanted pregnancies.
The filicide report found that most families had been in contact with at least one service prior to the filicide, including general health and child protection services. “When we looked at people born in countries whose main language was not English, we saw, for example, that there's a good understanding about family violence in the context of serious and physical violence, but often less understanding about the way that family violence can occur in non-physical forms. So emotional abuse, financial abuse, the controlling behaviors that, in fact, the evidence tells us are really core and present elements of family violence.
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