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1: How harmful is fighting in front of kids? | October 8, 2016

It’s a parenting tip echoed from one generation to the next: “Don’t fight in front of the kids.” But many parenting experts believe it’s not the actual fighting that upsets kids: it’s the way in which parents argue. 

So how does inter-parental conflict affect children? Is it ever okay for parents to argue in front of the kids?..

Catchwords: Emotional Abuse, Parental Conflict

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2: Mother Loses Custody After Preventing Father From From Seeing Child | December 1, 2014

A judge recently took the “drastic step” of ordering that a girl, eight, who had lived with her mother since her parents separated when she was 13 months, instead live with her father…

Catchwords: Child Custody Dispute, Court Decision, Medical Decisions, Parental Alienation, Parental Alienation, Parental Conflict, Parental Responsibility Orders, Precedent, Schooling, Shared Parental Responsibility Amendment 2006, Sole Custody

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3: Dad weighs his 43kg daughter in diet fight with mum | July 26, 2012

A COURT has stepped in to ban two Melbourne parents from weighing their eight-year-old daughter…

Catchwords: Child Custody, Child Custody Dispute, Child Health & Welfare

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4: Father banned from asking daughter about school | December 26, 2011

A NSW father has been ordered by the Family Court not to ask his daughter about her school reports or force her to eat meals…

Catchwords: Child Contact, Family Law Courts, Parental Responsibility, Precedent, Schooling, Supervised Contact

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5: Mother’s legal fight to be only ’mum’ | March 8, 2010

AN Adelaide mother went to court to prevent her daughter from referring to her ex-husband’s new wife as “Mum” or “Mummy” or “my other Mummy”…

Catchwords: Family Law Courts, Precedent