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Sorrowing in the Sisterhood

Sorrowing in the Sisterhood Last September, very few in Australasia can have escaped harrowing exposure to an extraordinary family tragedy. We have sought out one another across the Tasman in an outpouring of shock and grief. A story, which began with the abandonment of a little child in Melbourne, took a tragic turn with the discovery of her young mother’s body in the boot of her husband’s car in New Zealand. Throughout our region, of course, many families’ sensitivities to this story are heightened by bitter personal experience. They too, know what it means to lose a daughter, a sister, a mother or even a partner. For the women friends of a victim of intimate partner homicide, each news report of yet another murder means a painful revisiting of sadness and loss, and an agonised reworking of enormous frustration and regret at having been unable to protect a treasured member of ‘the sisterhood’. Some months ago, I was approached by a female friend of a woman who had been killed by her husband. She asked whether I would be interested in doing ‘something to make a difference’. The approach touched me deeply. I was keen to respond and was well aware that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Wiley
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2008 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1375/anft.29.1.48
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Last September, very few in Australasia can have escaped harrowing exposure to an extraordinary family tragedy. We have sought out one another across the Tasman in an outpouring of shock and grief. A story, which began with the abandonment of a little child in Melbourne, took a tragic turn with the discovery of her young mother’s body in the boot of her husband’s car in New Zealand. Throughout our region, of course, many families’ sensitivities to this story are heightened by bitter personal experience. They too, know what it means to lose a daughter, a sister, a mother or even a partner. For the women friends of a victim of intimate partner homicide, each news report of yet another murder means a painful revisiting of sadness and loss, and an agonised reworking of enormous frustration and regret at having been unable to protect a treasured member of ‘the sisterhood’. Some months ago, I was approached by a female friend of a woman who had been killed by her husband. She asked whether I would be interested in doing ‘something to make a difference’. The approach touched me deeply. I was keen to respond and was well aware that

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2008

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