Early child development research shows importance of sustaining father-baby relationships after divorce and separation.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2018
Articles relating to custody after divorce and the impact of different custody arrangements on child development, by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Child development researchers are actively evaluating the different physical custody arrangements – single or joint – and how this influences child development. Does the empirical evidence give grounds for a legal presumption of physical joint custody?
Poor outcomes for a child are much more closely linked to damaged parent-child relationships than to parental conflict or poor coparenting.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2017
Contact with paternal grandparents rises when compared to sole mother residence, while contact with maternal grandparents remains largely unchanged.
Maaike JappensMarch 2016
Family mediation focused on children’s feelings leads to parents agreeing to decrease conflict and provide more father parenting time, finds pilot study.
Amy Holtzworth-MunroeOctober 2015
1 in 50 U.S. children is raised in “grandfamilies” – grandparents without parents. The challenges faced by these families are hidden below the public radar.
Rachel DunifonMarch 2015
110 mental health experts from 15 countries endorse report that recommends overnight care children from both parents after divorce.
Richard A. WarshakOctober 2014
