Mr. J, a Former Professor Series – Entry 53: Who Protects the Children?
Questions for Courts, Commissions, and Ethics Bodies
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
How does the court assess the potential harm when a parent uses their child as a tool for financial or emotional coercion toward a third party?
What mechanisms are in place to evaluate whether such behaviors affect the child’s emotional safety and long-term development?
In cases where coercive control patterns involve referencing or involving minors, is this considered an aggravating factor in custody or parenting capacity assessments?
Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety of Queensland
How does the Department address cases where a parent exploits their child’s identity or presence to threaten or extort another adult?
Are there intervention protocols for situations where a child is used as leverage in adult conflicts?
How does the Department evaluate the emotional risks posed to a child in cases involving public harassment or narrative manipulation by a parent?
Australian Human Rights Commission — Children’s Rights Team
What safeguards exist to protect children from being drawn into manipulative or retaliatory behaviors by their parents in interpersonal conflicts?
How does the Commission monitor or advocate for children’s rights in cases where a parent’s public actions may compromise a child’s dignity and privacy?
Could such behavior potentially be classified as a breach of a child’s right to a safe and supportive family environment?
National Children’s Commissioner
When a parent repeatedly references or involves their child in acts of revenge or coercion, what ethical or legal standards are applied?
Are there reporting mechanisms for third parties to raise concerns about the misuse of a child’s identity in adult disputes?
How does the Commissioner engage with public cases where children are indirectly weaponized to maintain power dynamics?
Australian Senate (National Policy Oversight)
How does the Senate uphold ethical and child safety principles in cases where minors are publicly referenced in personal disputes or used as leverage?
Are there national reviews or hearings to evaluate the misuse of parental narratives that may compromise a child’s dignity and psychological safety?
How do national child protection strategies incorporate evolving forms of narrative abuse, including online and academic contexts?
UNESCO (Social and Human Sciences or Ethics of Science and Technology)
How can ethical frameworks address cases where children are symbolically weaponized in written or digital narratives to assert control or inflict emotional harm?
What global ethical guidelines exist to discourage the exploitation of familial ties (particularly minors) for personal or reputational leverage?
Could such actions fall under symbolic violence in international ethics discourse?
Read the full series
- Entry 1: The Man Who Taught Me Ethics by Failing All of Them
- Entry 2: The Disappearance of the Public Poet
- Entry 3: The Hanging Tree Case Study
- Entry 4: Hidden Like Accountability
- Entry 5: The Collapse of Assumptions
- Entry 6: The Ethics of a Tinder Bio
- Entry 7: How He Ate Told Me Everything
- Entry 8: What Makes a Scholar Dangerous
- Entry 9: Fragment of Life, Fragment of Accountability
- Entry 10: Anatomy of Disappointment
- Entry 11: Legal Defense Challenges: A Framing Statement
- Entry 12: Six Years After Ronell – What Academia Still Doesn’t Get
- Entry 13: QUT and The Man Who Raped Me
- Entry 14: Why Sarcasm Toward Institutions Can Backfire
- Entry 15: P*ssy or Toxic Masculinity?
- Entry 16: Who is Your Favorite Comedian?
- Entry 17: And What is Your Favorite Song?
- Entry 18: Grant Proposal — Narrative Ethics as Survivor-Led Forensics
- Entry 19: The Coward Behind the Clone
- Entry 20: [URGENT HIRE] CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
- Entry 21: [URGENT] Legal Counsel Needed for Complex Reputation Rehabilitation
- Entry 22: YOU’RE AN ABUSER. STOP CONTACTING ME
- Entry 23: Seeking Counsel for a Fallen Academic
- Entry 24: Internal Legal-PR Briefing
- Entry 25: For Journalists – Legal & Ethical Clearance Summary
- Entry 26: Symbolic Prostitution, Transactional Intimacy, or Just a “Loan”?
- Entry 28: Why He Simply Cannot Shut Up
- Entry 29: Forensic Commentary on “LARGE Language Muddle”
- Entry 30: Don’t Just Threaten My Future. Because I’m Going To Archive Your Present
- Entry 31: Open Letter to the Person Who Tried to Break Me with Defamation
- Entry 32: Defamation, Harassment, Doxxing Class 101
- Entry 33: Confidential Crisis Recovery Proposal
- Entry 34: Forensic Behavioral-Somatic Report
- Entry 35: Forensic Commentary on the Tattoos
- Entry 36: QUT and the Abuser They Once Had
- Entry 38: When Poetry Becomes Revenge Porn
- Entry 40: A Man Built for Applause, Not Accountability
- Entry 41: Neurobehavioral Addendum
- Entry 43: Why Does It Sound Like a War Metaphor?
- Entry 44: Forensic Commentary on Racialized and Fetishizing Language in “Hidden Like Rice”
- Entry 45: Public Misuse of Former Academic Affiliation
- Entry 46: The Two Things That Didn’t Leave a Bad Impression
- Entry 47: When Affection is Just an Alibi (A Bundy-Inspired Reflection)
- Entry 48: Humbert, Lolita, and the Fetish of Fragility
- Entry 49: The Fetish of Smallness as Symbolic Violence
- Entry 50: Motif Risk Analysis
- Entry 52: Can an Abuser Be a Good Father?
- Entry 53: Who Protects the Children?
- Entry 54: From Blackmail to Children
- Reflection: The Miscalculation
(More entries coming soon)
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