Automatically remove parental responsibility from convicted domestic abusers

Background

We believe that convicted domestic abusers should automatically have their parental responsibility removed. This is to safeguard the children from further abuse, preventing the abusive parent from leveraging their legal parental rights to inflict additional harm.

Additional details

Domestic abuse, including when witnessed by children, cause significant harm. We do not believe that domestic abusers should retain their legal right to exercise their parental rights which can be used to cause further trauma despite all the abuse they put their family through, and call for parental rights of domestic abusers to be automatically removed.

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