Is it better to keep children out of family law conflicts about parenting, or to give them a say? This book integrates the issues with empirical data on the views and experiences of children and other participants in such disputes, suggesting ways that children can better be heard without placing them at the centre of their parents' conflicts. These two Australia-based heavyweights, family lawyer and child psychologist respectively, have synthesised their skills to address one of family law's most important pieces of unfinished business. They get to the point straightaway, which is that the broad international consensus that children should be heard does not extend to how best this may be achieved...They provide a literature review, very well informed by various disciplines and the experiences of a number of jurisdictions, laced with opinions garnered from all the relevant (Ausralian) players