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 Report
- 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
- Urls: https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/sites/default/files/publication-documents/wabrief.pdf Available from, https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/child-abuse-and-family-violence-aboriginal-communities Download site, http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/reports/wabrief.pdf
- Publisher Location: Melbourne