This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical custody, legal frames regulating custody arrangements, stability and changes in arrangements across the life course of children, socio-economic, psychological, social well-being of various family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an interdisciplinary collaboration, it is interesting read for social scientists in demography, sociology, psychology, law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody arrangements.
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1 Introduction: Advances In Research On Shared Physical Custody By Interdisciplinary Approaches |
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Part I Interdisciplinary Overviews |
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2 Alternating Homes -- A New Family Form -- The Family Sociology Perspective |
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3 Psychological Perspectives On Joint Physical Custody |
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4 A European Model For Harmonizing The Law On Parental Responsibilities: The Family Law Persepctive |
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Part II Parents and Shared Physical Custody |
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5 Are "Part-Time Parents" Healthier And Happier Parents? Correlates Of Shared Physical Custody In Switzerland |
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75 | (26) |
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6 Children's Living Arrangements After Divorce And The Quality Of The Father-Child Relationship; Father Involvement As An Important Underlying Mechanism |
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7 Who Cares? An Event History Analysis Of Co-Parenthood Dynamics In Belgium |
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Part III Children and Shared Physical Custody |
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8 The Sohi: Operationalizing A New Model For Studying Teenagers' Sense Of Home In Post-Divorce Families |
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9 The Socioeconomic Gradient Of Shared Physical Custody In Two Welfare States: Comparison Between Spain And Sweden |
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10 Postdivorce Parent-Child Contact And Child Outcomes: The Role Of Spatial Mobility |
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Part IV Dynamic View on Shared Physical Custody |
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11 The Different Ways Of Implementing Shared Physical Custody In The French Context |
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12 Coparenting Interventions And Shared Physical Custody: Insights And Challenges |
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Part V Legal Frameworks of Child Support |
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13 Shared Physical Custody After Parental Separation: Evidence From Germany |
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Christine Entleitner-Phleps |
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14 Shared Physical Custody And Child Maintenance Arrangements: A Comparative Analysis Of 13 Countries Using A Model Family Approach |
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Laura Bernardi is Full Professor of Demography and Life Course Sociology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-present), and a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Research Foundation. She led an Independent Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and was Assistant Professor at the University of Rostock. She had been part of the Board of Directors of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) LIVES. Her research interests are in the field of life course and family demography.
Dimitri Mortelmans is Senior Full Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is Head of the Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH). He teaches Introduction to Scientific Work, Quantitative Research methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Applied Multivariate Statistics and Advanced topics in family sociology, life course sociology and demography. His research concentrates on family sociology and life course sociology.