Alternating Homes – A New Family Form – The Family Sociology Perspective

Thomson, Elizabeth; Turunen, Jani

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68479-2_2

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“…A parent with shared physical custody is likely to have a greater insight into the child's social life via knowledge about his/her friends and their parents, and greater insight into the child's education as a result of meeting teachers when dropping off or picking up the child from pre-school or school, or by participating at parent-teacher meetings. These structural features of shared physical custody, affecting both the obligations of and relationships between family members, suggests we should view shared physical custody as a new family form that is different from both traditional two-parent families and traditional divorced families (Thomson and Turunen 2021). This type of post-separation living arrangement is also related to higher child wellbeing than living full-time with one parent (Nielsen 2011(Nielsen , 2014(Nielsen , 2018.…”

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Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974–2011

Turunen¹,

Brandén²,

Lundström³

2023

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDDivorce is associated with a weakened relationship between the child and the nonresident parent, usually the father. This loss of contact is likely to be even further exacerbated if this parent lives at a substantial distance from the child. OBJECTIVEThis paper analyzes how the distance between children and nonresident parents, the year after a parental separation, has changed during a 40-year period in Sweden, and whether this is related to changes in child custody policies. METHODSWe use Swedish population register data that includes exact geographical coordinates for children and their nonresident parents in the year after separation. We analyze how average distance and the likelihood of living very close to, or very far from, a nonresident parent has changed over this period, using OLS and logistic regression models. RESULTSResults show a gradual decrease in the distance between children and nonresident parents from the 1970s until the early 1990s, after which the trend stalled at a low level. In 2011, 50% of all children lived within 2 kilometers of their nonresident parent. We find no evidence of direct policy effects, indicated by any sudden changes in distance after the introduction of a new custody policy. High-income parents have changed their postdivorce residential patterns at a faster pace than low-income parents.

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Section: Why Is Parent-child Distance Important?mentioning

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Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974–2011

Turunen¹,

Brandén²,

Lundström³

2023

DemRes

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“…As a result of more parents opting for shared residence after divorce, it has become more common for children to live approximately half of the time in the household of each biological parent (Bernardi & Mortelmans, 2021). This creates a distinct stepfamily form where multiple (step)parental figures can be (almost) equally active in the lives of children, making family relationships in multiple households more intertwined (Thomson & Turunen, 2021). Furthermore, research in the last decades has shown that nonresident biological parents are becoming more active in their children's lives (Westphal et al, 2014), along with nonresident stepparents becoming more present parental figures.…”

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Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – Variation across residence arrangements

Arat

Voorpostel

Bernardi

2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study investigates how the quality of family relationships and children’s residence arrangements are associated with stepparent-child relationship quality. Prior literature has studied these factors separately, with the role of family relationships often studied only among stepfamilies with co-resident children. Little is known about how the relevance of family relationships varies depending on where children reside. The opportunity structure (e.g., contact frequency) within which various family relationships influence each other can differ across residence arrangements. This study, therefore, investigates the roles of multiple family relationships across children’s various residence arrangements - including the more contemporary arrangement of shared residence. Multiple regression analyses with moderation techniques were conducted using the New Families in the Netherlands (NFN) survey, large-scale data collected in 2020 among divorced and separated parents with a minor or (young) adult focal child ( N = 1829). We found for each family dyad (between the biological parent and the focal child, between the biological parent and the stepparent, and between the stepparent and the other biological parent of the focal child) that a high relationship quality was associated with higher stepparent-child relationship quality. Their importance, however, varied across residence arrangements. Poor relationship quality of the biological parent-child dyad and the stepparent-other biological parent dyad was associated with a poor stepparent-child relationship, especially when the focal child was nonresident. Whereas, there was a positive association between the stepcouple relationship and stepparent-child relationship quality primarily for children living full-time with the stepfamily. Altogether, the relationship quality of various family dyads spills over to the stepparent-child dyad - though the extent of this spillover differs depending on the opportunity structure determined by children’s residence.

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Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution

Eriksson,

Kolk

2024

Social Forces

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This study investigates two concurrent trends across Europe and North America: the increasing instability of parental unions and men’s rising contributions to household work. Because children have almost universally resided with their mothers and it is difficult for non-residential fathers to maintain any levels of care work, union dissolutions have potentially slowed societal increases in gender equality. A new family form—50/50 living arrangements—has begun to challenge our understanding of the consequences of union dissolution. Since 50/50 residence requires fathers to take full care responsibility for the child half of the time—something few partnered fathers do—it may even push parents into a more egalitarian division of care work. We have studied care work using Swedish administrative data on parents’ leave from work to care for a sick child. We have created a panel of leave-sharing for children aged 2–11, and use an event-study design to estimate the causal effect of dissolution on the sharing of sick-child leave. The results show that in parental unions dissolving today, the dissolution leads to an increase in fathers’ share of sick-child leave. Whereas union dissolutions have for decades been slowing the gender revolution in Sweden, they are now accelerating it.

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Alternating Homes – A New Family Form – The Family Sociology Perspective

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974–2011

Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974–2011

Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – Variation across residence arrangements

Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution

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