For decades, if you wanted a divorce in Australia, you had to prove your spouse was to blame.
While press coverage of this upswing tended towards the alarmist, she explains, the number of divorces"flattened out" after a few years."Right from the beginning the expectations of people that people could be civilised is contradicted by the way they in fact act," Professor Swain says.
Patrick Parkinson, the Dean of Law at the University of Queensland, says when considering family law reform, it's important to remember that the Family Court deals with much more than just marital disputes. Australian children are being placed in harm's way by the legal structure designed to determine their best interests — the family law system.
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