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• Acknowledgements
• About the authors
• Executive summary
• 1.0 Introduction
  • 1.1 Methodology
    • 1.1.1 A gender-based analysis
    • 1.1.2 An intersectional approach
    • 1.1.3 A trauma- and violence-informed lens
• 2.0 Literature review on the impacts of family violence
  • 2.1 Definitions
    • 2.1.1 Family violence
    • 2.1.2 Domestic violence or violence against women
    • 2.1.3 Children exposed to domestic violence
  • 2.2 Domestic violence: A gendered and intersectional issue
  • 2.3 Definitional complexities and nuances
    • 2.3.1 Pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour
    • 2.3.2 Targeting of unique vulnerabilities in immigrant families
    • 2.3.3 Patterns of physical violence
    • 2.3.4 Technology-facilitated abuse as an increasingly common concern
    • 2.3.5 Litigation abuse
    • 2.3.6 Severity of domestic violence and risk factors for lethal domestic violence
    • 2.3.7 Differentiating high conflict from family violence
• 3.0 Family violence and post-separation parenting
  • 3.1 Impacts of child exposure to intimate partner violence
  • 3.2 Multiple forms of family violence: Overlap of child abuse and IPV
  • 3.3 Special considerations about post-separation parenting by perpetrators of family violence
    • 3.3.1 Perpetrating parents often draw children into abuse
    • 3.3.2 Parenting of the victimized parent is often a focus of abusive behaviour
    • 3.3.3 Additional concerns about parenting in perpetrators of domestic violence
    • 3.3.4 Children’s view of their abusive parent
  • 3.4 Relevance of IPV to post-separation parenting of the victim parent
    • 3.4.1 Children exposed to family violence may have greater needs
    • 3.4.2 Parenting choices are often constrained by the abuser
    • 3.4.3 Decisions not to report and not to leave are often misunderstood or reinterpreted
    • 3.4.4 Protective strategies of victimized parents are often misunderstood
    • 3.4.5 Victimized parents often have fewer resources
    • 3.4.6 No win situation: Victim parents “fail to protect” or “alienate”
    • 3.4.7 Victim parents often struggle with self-blame
    • 3.4.8 Children’s views of their victimized parent
• 4.0 The need for a paradigm shift for family violence cases
  • 4.1 The challenge for victims
  • 4.2 Resolution of parenting issues
  • 4.3 Best interests of the child and the primacy of child safety
  • 4.4 Family violence and the family court process
  • 4.5 Parenting plans and family violence
  • 4.6 Family violence allegations: Role of court-appointed assessors
  • 4.7 Barriers and challenges to making appropriate parenting plans
    • 4.7.1 Multiple systems and concurrent proceedings
    • 4.7.2 Self-represented litigants
    • 4.7.3 Children’s perspectives and preferences
    • 4.7.4 Parental alienation and domestic violence allegations
  • 4.8 From legislative reform to action
• 5.0 Emerging best practices: Parenting arrangements in family violence cases
  • 5.1 Family violence and the 2021 Divorce Act reforms
    • 5.1.1 The significance of the reforms
    • 5.1.2 Coercive controlling behaviour as family violence
    • 5.1.3 Alienating behaviour as family violence
  • 5.2 Parenting arrangements
    • 5.2.1 Co-parenting
    • 5.2.2 Parallel parenting
    • 5.2.3 Primary residence parenting
    • 5.2.4 Supervised exchange
    • 5.2.5 Supervised parenting time
    • 5.2.6 No contact
  • 5.3 Type of violence history
  • 5.4 Resources for children, victims and perpetrators
  • 5.5 Timing of disclosure and establishing validity of allegations
    • 5.5.1 Interim hearings and temporary orders
    • 5.5.2 Orders at trial and review
    • 5.5.3 Re-establishing a child’s relationship with a parent who has abused the other parent
• 6.0 Conclusions
• Supplement # 1: Differentiated approaches to parenting arrangements after family violence
• Supplement # 2: Coercive control as a form of family violence
• References
• Training materials, websites, and webinars

Figures

• Figure 1: Power and control wheel
• Table 1: Overview of potential consequences of harm as a result of family violence
• Figure 2: Differentiated interventions in family violence cases
• Figure 3: Parenting plans: Issues in family violence cases
• Figure 4: Parenting arrangements after family violence
• Figure 5: Parenting arrangements after family violence and history of violence
• Figure 6: Parenting arrangements: History of violence and resources available
• Figure 7: Parenting arrangements after family violence as a function of history of violence, resources Available and timing of disclosure

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