TY  - SER
AU  - Goldson, Jill
AU  - Riddiford,Liz
TI  - Kids fight, don't they?: issues of invisible abuse sustained by gaps in the law
SN  - 0113-7662
U1  - H/C 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Dunedin
PB  - New Zealand Association of Social Workers
KW  - BULLYING
KW  - FVC
KW  - CARE AND PROTECTION
KW  - CHILDREN
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LEGISLATION
KW  - SIBLINGS
KW  - VICTIMS
KW  - VIOLENCE
KW  - SIBLING ABUSE
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Social Work Review 11(3) September 1999 : 6-8; nz
N2  - This article examines the issue of sibling violence and how a victim of sibling bullying in the home is not protected by law. A case study and discussion of New Zealand law is used to illustrate this point. The authors suggest that the lack of legal descriptors in the legislation regarding protection of children who are victims of sibling abuse poses an area of vagueness for the social worker. It is proposed that an amendment to the Domestic Violence Act (1995), allowing protection orders to be made against children who have attained the age of 14 years, would provide consistency with legal sanctions under the Crimes Act (1961). The authors support visibility of this issue and, in doing so, advocate for a comparative awareness of how the law defines violence in non inter-sibling contexts
ER  -