Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not 'abduction', but that's how the law sees it
- Written by Gina Masterton, PhD Candidate, Law School, Griffith University
The Hague Convention on child abduction was drafted to deal with fathers abducting their children across borders after losing custody, but it's applied mainly to mothers fleeing domestic violence.from shutterstock.com
Fiona (not her real name) came to Australia from New Zealand as a 19-year-old backpacker. Here, she met a man, got married and had...