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ArticleViolence against women2025

Postseparation Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Government Systems: A Survey of Australian Mothers' Experiences of Child Support.

Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Terese Edwards, Rachael Burgin

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Article in Violence against women, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kay CookCentre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0894-2815
Adrienne ByrtCentre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5422-1082
Terese EdwardsSingle Mother Families Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Rachael BurginSwinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0030-5229

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6 · The paper itself

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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Family SeparationMothersAdultAustraliaChildFemaleHumansIntimate Partner ViolenceMiddle AgedSurveys and Questionnaireschild supportfinancial abusepostseparationsingle motherssystems abuse

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PMID39295535
PMCPMC12414110

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