Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

• Andere auteurs: Bernardi, Laura (Redacteur), Mortelmans, Dimitri (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Springer Nature 2021
• Reeks: European Studies of Population 25
• Onderwerpen: Population & demography; Central government policies; Social work; Psychiatry; Demography; Social Policy; Politics of the Welfare State; Social Work and Community Development; Comparative Social Policy; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Population and Demography; Child and Adolescence Psychology; Family Law; Children well-being; Consequences of divorce and separation; Parents-children relationships; Child support; Family Demography; Divorce rates; Union formation; Child living arrangements; Non-intact family setting; Co-parenthood; Child support and shared care; Open access; New family forms; Law on parental responsibilities; Father-Child relationship; Post-divorce families; Shared parenting after divorce; Legal frameworks of child support; Central / national / federal government policies
• Online toegang: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Samenvatting

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.

Fysieke beschrijving

1 electronic resource (331 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-68479-2
9783030684792

Toegang

Open Access