After spending yet another day in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in Brisbane, I thought I would share some of the findings revealed by the Australian Institute of Families in a research study:

- Only 3% of Court Orders stipulate no contact with one parent

- 97% of separated parents come to an arrangement without the intervention of the Court

- Many of the matters which come before the Court include issues of child safety, domestic violence or other “complex” factors; and

- A review of Court records suggest that while children spend regular time with their father, they spend the majority of time with their mother (in both court ordered and non-court ordered situations).

The study also reveals some very interesting data about how court ordered arrangements relating to how children spend time with/live with the father substantially differ to that which is found within the “general separated population”.

The above is only a brief summary of the article. For anyone interested, the full article can be found at https://aifs.gov.au/.../parenting-arrangements-after...

Do these statistics surprise you? Let me know why/why not.

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Source: Research Summary,Australian Institute of Family Studies, October 2019