New book · A companion to The Battle of Business
The Battle
for the Kids
A no nonsense guide to the battle for your kids.
He won the boardroom and lost the bedroom — and when the marriage came apart, a system he was sure would find the truth nearly took his kids, his name, and his life. This is the story of how he got through it — and a field manual for anyone in the same fight.
About the book
You might remember Joe Walsh from The Battle of Business — the bloke who built a family entertainment centre and finally got it running without him. This is what happened after the boardroom and the bedroom became the same room. When the marriage came apart, so did everything, and the "system" did the rest: the family court, the restraining orders, the child-protection findings made without him ever being asked, and the silence that nearly finished him off.
Told straight, with the anger kept in the facts, The Battle for the Kids is part memoir and part survival guide. Every number about the system is real and sourced. And it ends where it's most useful — a practical Field Manual any parent can pick up and use tonight.
You are not alone, and others have been through exactly what you're going through.
What's inside
Part One — The Battle
How an ordinary man walks into the system unarmed: the knife, the piece of paper, the assault nobody recorded, the finding made behind his back.
Part Two — The Turn
The email from a twelve-year-old that changed everything, and the six weeks in which the whole thing reversed.
Part Three — The Ground You Fight For
Winning and what it doesn't fix, the male-suicide crisis told with care, and a letter to his boys.
Part Four — The Field Manual
Eight practical modules and ready-to-print worksheets: build your file, answer on paper, protect the kids, stay standing.
About the authors
Eric Purvis is an Australian entrepreneur and the author of The Battle of Business, written with Joe Walsh. He started his first business at eighteen and has run ventures across entertainment, property and transport. After living through the family law system himself, he founded All Kids Lives Matter — a research-driven campaign putting the facts of the system on the record, every figure checked against a primary source. He wrote this book so the next parent in the fight wouldn't have to face it in the dark.
Free resources from the book
The practical kit — print it, fill it in, use it. Free for anyone caught in the family law, child-protection or restraining-order system.
Not legal or medical advice. The law differs between states and changes — get your own advice from a solicitor and your GP. In crisis: Lifeline 13 11 14 · MensLine 1300 78 99 78 · Emergency 000.
The Field Manual
The complete survival kit — the eight modules in one printable booklet.
Download (PDF)The Worksheets
Blank copies of every worksheet — file index, rebuttal grid, court-date checklist, FOI request and more.
Download (PDF)Wellbeing Log — Card
Capture a child's own words on the day. The cheapest, most persuasive record there is.
Download (PDF)Wellbeing Log — Spreadsheet
The digital log with dropdowns and a worked example, ready for a court-ready system.
Download (Excel)© Eric Purvis / All Kids Lives Matter. Share these freely with anyone who needs them.