> Over the last few weeks, Australia has been transfixed by a story of a
> man leaving his three-year-old daughter at the train station. It was
> later discovered that, prior to doing this, the man had murdered his
> wife.
>
> The man in question is not just any man; he is a 50-something Chinese
> tai chi grandmaster. His wife was in her 20s, and he had previously
> been violent toward her. He completed the violence prevention course,
> and he was free to be with his wife and children. Then he killed his
> wife and abandoned his daughter.
>
> That a Tai Chi grandmaster would do such a thing, is a scandal enough
> in its own right. But what is more scandalous still is the utter
> failure of Australian family court system to stop family violence
> before it became lethal. While much of the feminism has been focusing
> on trivial and wrongful causes, real harm and real atrocity goes on
> undredressed. Indeed in Australia it is getting worse by the minute.
>
> In 2005, Australian government passed a law that gave shared parenting
> rights precedence over abuse prevention. According to these laws, it
> is possible for a man who has put his children in hospital to have
> unsupervised access. Meanwhile it is becoming not allowed for woman
> and children to tell the truth. Even though 98%% of children's
> accusations of abuse against their fathers have been demonstrated to
> be true, Australian family courts use the Parental Alienation Syndrome
> racket - a racket invented in America and quickly discredited there -
> to take away children from women who tell the truth about abuse that
> had gone on in the household and then give rights over them to the
> abusive fathers.
>
> This is as real an atrocity as it gets, and if feminists are for what
> they claim to be for then this should be on their top list of
> priorities. Otherwise we will see more wife-killings, more atrocities
> against children, and an entire generation growing up without human
> rights.
>
> Ilya Shambat
>