Child Abuse and Family Violence in Aboriginal Communities – Exploring Child Sexual Abuse in Western Australia

Child Abuse and Family Violence in Aboriginal Communities – Exploring Child Sexual Abuse in Western Australia Presentations

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  • Author(s): Stanley, J, Kovacs, K, Tomison, A, Kripps, K
  • Published: 2002
  • Publisher: National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies

Abstract: Within the Australian Indigenous community, family violence is commonly used as a broad term, encompassing all forms of violence between members of a kinship group or the immediate community. Concomitantly, abuse of Indigenous children, and particularly sexual abuse, is generally viewed as a community issue, rather than within the narrower nuclear family context used in the non-Indigenous community. The two bodies of knowledge (child abuse within the Indigenous and non- Indigenous communities) also differ in terms of their 'ways of knowing' - knowledge on Indigenous issues frequently coming from personal experience.

Notes: Western Australian Government Inquiry into Responses by Government Agencies to complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

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