Overview
- Views determinants and consequences of shared custody
- Focuses not only on children but also on the parents
- This book is open access and freely available online
Part of the book series: European Studies of Population (ESPO, volume 25)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Parents and Shared Physical Custody
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Children and Shared Physical Custody
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Dynamic View on Shared Physical Custody
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Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shared Physical Custody
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements
Editors: Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68479-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68478-5Published: 08 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68481-5Published: 08 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68479-2Published: 07 July 2021
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 331
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry