These limits mean their stories are This report found a striking 76 per cent of filicides occurred within rarely told and the impact of domestic a domestic and family violence context, meaning that there was an and family violence on children is identifiable history of either or both child abuse or intimate partner poorly understood. [...] This research provides a rare opportunity to increase public While this study provides new statistics about the number of children killed understanding of the impact that in the context of domestic and family violence, it ultimately represents just domestic and family violence a glimpse of the true extent of violence on children’s lives. [...] Domestic and family violence context: means that before the filicide there was an identifiable history of either or both child abuse and intimate partner violence; collectively these are referred to as domestic and family violence. [...] Even where these direct forms of abuse do not occur, children are which there was a history of experiencing the acute and chronic impacts of living in a home where a parent, abuse demonstrating that usually a father or stepfather, is using violence towards a partner, usually the the killing of these children child’s mother. [...] The findings relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filicide victims and offenders must be considered with respect to the context within which this violence occurred, namely colonisation and intergenerational trauma, the ongoing colonial system, systemic racism and the persistent lack of appropriate services, deficiencies in the practices of identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strai.
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