Margaret Chipperfield

Margaret Chipperfield grew up in North Balwyn and obtained a teaching certificate from Burwood Teacher’s College in 1964. She spent six years as a primary school teacher before attending Monash University to obtain qualifications as a social worker.

She spent the next 25 years as a social worker, including three years working in child protection and some 20 years managing a range of different programs such as Foster Care, Family Counselling, Men’s Violence, Drug and Alcohol Counselling, Family Support, Residential Care and Financial Counselling.

In 2005, Margaret was the recipient of the Robin Clark Memorial Award for Inspirational Leadership in the Field.

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No Buts

by Margaret Chipperfield

No Buts is a book that features men we rarely hear about.

As a society, we hear appalling stories about homicides and violent and abusive crimes perpetrated by men against women and children. We are relieved to hear when the perpetrators are incarcerated, and we are supportive of funding being used to protect women and children. However, we rarely hear of the men who live with a belly full of guilt and shame and who want to change their behaviour.

The stories in this book are written by men who achieved behaviour change. They are written with the aim of encouraging other men to seek help.

The stories were compiled by social worker Margaret Chipperfield, who began working in the intensive Men’s Behaviour Change Program at Anglicare Victoria in 2013.

While this book is about men and, in many cases, their untapped potential, it in no way diminishes the suffering that men have inflicted upon women and children. It is because of this intolerable damage that this book has come to be written: to examine the root cause of the problem, seek an understanding and some solutions, and most of all, to encourage men who need it to seek help.

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