Petition · past parliament

Strip parental rights from abusive parents using children with coercive control

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Any parent with history of domestic violence verbal physical emotional psychological financial abuse stalking and coercive control and using children to be used to cause further harm to the victim parent who tries to leave the abusive relationship to protect self and the children eg using contact
How damaging domestic violence is for a family and further damage for the children who are also victims as they can be used as tools and for the abusive parent to exert control and power over the victim parent by using children by form of manipulation to destroy victim parent whilst granted contact in civil courts. This needs addressed and stopped to not cause further trauma and abuse to children who are too young to make choices for themselves and all agencies involved to be aware of these acts

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

25 Aug 2018 Petition opened for signatures
11 Sep 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 11 Sep 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.