Introduction: Advances in Research on Shared Physical Custody by Interdisciplinary Approaches

Bernardi, Laura; Mortelmans, Dimitri

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68479-2_1

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“…This turn toward shared placement is partially driven by policy and practice encouraging shared parenting time, as well as increasing gender equality in caregiving and earning domains within households (Bernardi & Mortelmans, 2021). This increasing equality is reflected in the increased likelihood of parents who share physical custody in divorce cases to have more similar income and education levels than parents who do not share custody (Berman & Daneback, 2020; Melli & Brown, 2008).…”

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Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Costanzo

Reilly

2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveWe aim to examine the prevalence of shared placement in nonmarital cases, and we then consider whether and how nonmarital shared placement cases differ from sole mother cases across a variety of case characteristics and child support outcomes.BackgroundIn recent decades, shared placement has become increasingly common after divorce, but less is known about the prevalence of shared placement in nonmarital cases. Shared placement may have important implications for families, and little is known about its prevalence in cases of unmarried parents or about characteristics of nonmarital families that have shared placement arrangements.MethodLeveraging unique administrative data on more than 6,000 nonmarital court cases, we examine the prevalence of shared placement, case characteristics of shared placement compared with sole placement cases, and child support measures by placement type. We use multivariate regression and bivariate analyses.ResultsAlthough sole mother placement remains the norm, data indicate an increase in shared placement arrangements in recent cohorts of nonmarital cases. We find parents with shared placement arrangements tend to be slightly more advantaged across several measures. On average, shared placement cases have lower child support orders and payments and substantively higher compliance rates in the year after petition.ConclusionShared placement is increasing in nonmarital cases in recent years. Nonmarital families who have shared placement arrangements differ in important ways from families with sole mother custody.ImplicationsFindings suggest the importance of expanding the relevant shared placement literature and policy discussion to consider nonmarital cases in addition to divorce cases.

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Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Costanzo

Reilly

2023

Family Relations

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“…There is no possibility to share childcare subsidies. As recently pointed by Bernardi and Mortelmans (2021), the lack of good and representative data on shared custody arrangements is an issue. Though crucial, the individual information on child custody arrangements is often missing or concerns too few cases in usual surveys to study its consequences precisely.…”

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Does Part-Time Mothering Help Get a Job? The Role of Shared Custody in Women’s Employment

2022

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Though child shared physical custody arrangements after divorce are much more frequent and parents who use it more diverse in many European countries, little is known about their economic consequences for parents. By relaxing family time constraints, does shared custody help divorced mothers return to or stay on work more easily? Since lone mothers are one of the least-employed groups, and they face high unemployment rates, the type of child custody arrangement adopted after divorce is of particular interest for their employability. This article analyses to what extent the type of child custody arrangement affects mothers’ labour market patterns after divorce.Using a large sample of divorcees from an exhaustive French administrative income tax database, and taking advantage of the huge territorial discrepancies observed in the proportion of shared custody, we correct for the possible endogeneity of shared custody. Results show that not repartnered mothers with shared custody arrangements are 24 percentage points more likely to work one year after divorce compared to those having sole custody, while no significant effect is found for repartnered mothers. Among lone mothers, we also highlight huge heterogeneous effects: larger positive effects are observed for previously inactive women, for those belonging to the lowest income quintiles before divorce, for those with a young child, and for those who have three or more children. Thus, shared physical custody arrangements may reduce work–family conflict by diminishing childcare expenses and enlarge the possibilities to find a suitable job because of more relaxed time constraints for lone mothers.

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“…Whereas during the 1990s, separated fathers often had a limited role in the upbringing of their children (Vanassche et al, 2017), in recent years, more equal involvement of both separated parents has become more common (Westphal et al, 2014). In a number of European countries, recent family policies emphasized the rights and opportunities of separated fathers, thereby reinforcing current trends (Bernardi & Mortelmans, 2021). These trends may have important implications for the geographical proximity of children to their separated parents.…”

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Trends in distance between non-resident parents and minor children following separation: Analysis of the Belgian case, 1992–2018

Žilinčíková¹,

Schnor²

2023

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Geographic distance between a child and their non-resident parent is a key aspect of the reorganization of the family following parental separation. The increasingly equal involvement of both parents in the upbringing of their children is expected to translate into increasing geographic proximity between children and non-resident parents. So far, there has been no evidence about the time trends in geographical distances between minor children and non-resident parents outside of the Swedish context. In this study, we investigate these trends across Belgian separation cohorts from 1992 to 2018, and the extent to which they differ according to parental socio-economic status and child’s age at separation. Overall, we observed a small decrease in distance between children and their non-resident fathers and a somewhat larger decrease for non-resident mothers. The distance increased for very young children (0–2 years) and children with low-educated fathers. These findings point to inequalities in certain parent–child dyads.

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Introduction: Advances in Research on Shared Physical Custody by Interdisciplinary Approaches

Cited by 13 publications

References 57 publications

Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Does Part-Time Mothering Help Get a Job? The Role of Shared Custody in Women’s Employment

Trends in distance between non-resident parents and minor children following separation: Analysis of the Belgian case, 1992–2018

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