A Must Read article by Angela Shanahan from the Australian on demands to repeal shared parenting laws in Australia. ==Shared parenting by separated couples is not a perfect solution but that's no reason to scrap it. TWO stories last week resonated with a familiar timbre, that of shrill feminists yelling for men's blood. The first was the hysterical reaction to Tony Abbott's Women's Weekly interview in which he expressed his opinion on what is both a father's right and dut...

Shared care and domestic violence are separate issues. Children should not be exposed at any level. But there is definitely a risk of violence to children due to family breakdown and not simply from the father, but from the mother and other males. Chisholm goes beyond his terms of reference by recommending extensive dismantling of the 2006 reforms.

Prime minister Kevin Rudd has flagged year-end changes to Australia's child-support system, saying the present arrangements are causing many families angst. Mr Rudd today acknowledged that the system, which requires a non-custodial parent to make a financial contribution to the other parent for the care of their children, was a matter of "huge controversy".

As I Canadian, I would like to correct for your readership Overington's assertion that "Canada has a shared parenting law similar to Australia's". On the contrary, Canada does not have a presumption of shared parenting, nor your wonderful mediation/arbitration services, or the "Magellan" project for timely processing of abuse allegations, or provision for sanctions for false allegations or perjury.