Research library

The evidence base on economic abuse and the negative economic impact of domestic violence more broadly has expanded over the past ten years. Program interventions to support women’s economic stability have also been developed and evaluated.

The reports below reflect national and international knowledge. Join the international network for updates.

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2025

Radbord, Joanna

Worthless? Victims of Family Violence and the (Non)Payment of Child Support Journal Article

In: Canadian Journal of Family Law, 2025.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Canada, child maintenance, child support, post-separation economic abuse, research

2024

Haux, Tina; Scandone, Berenice; Ruby, Florence; Harflett, Naomi

Child maintenance: Research on the experiences and impact on separated families Technical Report

2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: child maintenance, child support, research, UK

Cook, Kay; Byrt, Adrienne; Edwards, Terese; Coen, Ashlea

Opening the black box of child support: Shining a light on how financial abuse is perpetrated Technical Report

2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, child maintenance, child support, research

Cook, Kay; Byrt, Adrienne; Edwards, Terese; Burgin, Rachael

Postseparation Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Government Systems: A Survey of Australian Mothers’ Experiences of Child Support Journal Article

In: Violence Against Women, 2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, child maintenance, child support, research

Yopo-Diaz, Martina; Fuentes-Landaeta, Javiera

Family, gender and economic violence: failure to pay child support in Chile Journal Article

In: 2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: child maintenance, child support, Chile, research

Australia, Women's Legal Services

Non-Payment of Child Support as Economic Abuse: A Literature Review Technical Report

2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, child maintenance, child support, literature review

2023

Fernqvist, Stina; Flinkfeldt, Marie; Tegler, Helena

“He Won’t Pay”: The Entanglement of Financial Abuse and Negligence in Swedish Child Maintenance Processes Journal Article

In: Violence Against Women, 2023.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: child maintenance, child support, research, Sweden

Cook, Kay; Byrt, Adrienne; Burgin, Rachael; Edwards, Terese; Coen, Ashlea; Dimopoulos, Georgina

Financial Abuse: The Weaponisation of Child Support in Australia Technical Report

2023.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, child maintenance, child support, children, research

2022

Royal, Kathryn

‘Coronavirus has been the perfect excuse for him to just stop paying’: child maintenance and economic abuse in the UK during the COVID-19 outbreak Journal Article

In: Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2022.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: child maintenance, child support, research, UK

Tegler, Helena; Fernqvist, Stina; Flinkfeldt, Marie

“And all Hell Broke Loose”: How Child Maintenance Regulations Contribute to Re-actualizing Intimate Partner Violence between Separated Parents in Sweden Journal Article

In: Journal of Family Violence, 2022.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: child maintenance, child support, research, Sweden

2019

Cook, Kay; Goodall, Zoë; McLaren, Juanita; Edwards, Terese

Debts and Disappointments: Mothers' experiences of the child support system Journal Article

In: Analysis & Policy Observatory, 2019.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, child maintenance, child support, children, research

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