Shared Physical Custody : Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910491025403321
• Autore: Bernardi Laura
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021
• ISBN: 3-030-68479-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: European Studies of Population ; ; v.25
• Altri autori (Persone): MortelmansDimitri
• Soggetti: Population & demography; Central government policies; Social work; Psychiatry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Advances in Research on Shared Physical Custody by Interdisciplinary Approaches -- Alternating Homes – A New Family Form – The Family Sociology Perspective -- Psychological Perspectives on Joint Physical Custody -- A European Model for Harmonizing the Law on Parental Responsibilities: The Family Law Persepctive -- Are “Part-Time Parents” Healthier and Happier Parents? Correlates of Shared Physical Custody in Switzerland -- Children’s Living Arrangements After Divorce and the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship; Father Involvement as an Important Underlying Mechanism -- Who Cares? An Event History Analysis of Co-parenthood Dynamics in Belgium -- The SOHI: Operationalizing a New Model for Studying Teenagers’ Sense of Home in Post-divorce Families -- The Socioeconomic Gradient of Shared Physical Custody in Two Welfare States: Comparison Between Spain and Sweden -- Postdivorce Parent-Child Contact and Child Outcomes: The Role of Spatial Mobility -- The Different Ways of Implementing Shared Physical Custody in the French Context -- Coparenting Interventions and Shared Physical Custody: Insights and Challenges -- Shared Physical Custody After Parental Separation: Evidence from Germany -- Shared Physical Custody and Child Maintenance Arrangements: A Comparative Analysis of 13 Countries Using a Model Family Approach.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.