Parenting Plans for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Research and Issues

Nielsen, Linda

doi:10.1080/10502556.2014.901857

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“…It is, however, important to note that the difference in mean difference in SDQ between joint physical custody and sole physical custody with no new partner arrangement is only about 10% of a standard deviation for this measure and must thus be considered very small. A favorable pattern for schoolchildren in joint physical custody after parental separation has previously been repeatedly shown in population-based cross-sectional studies with numerous outcomes such as satisfaction with life, risk behavior, school achievement, wellbeing and mental health [1,[13][14][15]46]. In this first large longitudinal study on this topic, we have accounted for multiple early childhood predictors of child mental health in the logistic regression, which attenuated differences between children living in a nuclear family and sole physical custody arrangements, while attenuation was more moderate for children in joint physical custody.…”

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Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody: A Longitudinal Study

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This study investigated mental health in schoolchildren in different living arrangements after parental separation. The study population included 31,519 children from the Danish National Birth Cohort, followed-up at age 11 in 2010–2014. Child mental health was measured with a maternal report of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Associations between living arrangements and mental health were analyzed using logistic and linear regression models, taking into account early childhood indicators of the parents’ relations, income, education and psychiatric care. At age 11, children living in a nuclear family had the lowest rate of total SDQ score, 8.9%. Of the children who had experienced parental separation, children in joint physical custody had the lowest adjusted odds ratio (OR)1.25 (95%-CI 1.09–1.44), for a high SDQ score relative to children living in a nuclear family, with adjusted ORs of 1.63 (1.42–1.86) and OR 1.72 (1.52–1.95) for sole physical custody arrangements with and without a new partner. An analysis of change in SDQ scores between ages 7 and 11 in children showed a similar pattern. This study indicates that joint physical custody is associated with slightly more favorable mental health in schoolchildren after parental separation than sole physical custody arrangements.

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Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody: A Longitudinal Study

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“…First, if this is the case, then it might explain why JPC is linked to better outcomes for children in the 42 studies that have compared the children in the two types of families. (For summaries of these studies see Nielsen, 2011Nielsen, , 2014bNielsen, , 2014c.) It may be that it is the parents' low conflict, cooperative teamwork, not shared physical custody, that is linked to the JPC children's better outcomes.…”

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Re-examining the research on parental conflict, coparenting, and custody arrangements.

Nielsen¹

2017

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This article addresses 4 questions: First, how much weight should be given to parental conflict and the quality of the coparenting relationship in determining parenting time-specifically with respect to children's living at least 35% time with each parent in joint physical custody? Second, to what extent are low conflict and cooperative coparenting connected to better outcomes for children? Third, to what degree are children's outcomes linked to whether their parents take their custody disputes to court or have high legal conflict? Fourth, is joint physical custody associated with worse outcomes than sole physical custody for children whose parents have a conflicted, uncooperative coparenting relationship? Recent research does not support the idea that conflict-including high legal conflict-should rule out joint physical custody as the arrangement that best serves children's interests. Parents with joint physical custody do not generally have significantly less conflict or more cooperative relationships than parents with sole physical custody. Conflict and poor coparenting are not linked to worse outcomes for children in joint physical custody than in sole physical custody. The quality of the parent-child relationship is a better predictor than conflict of children's outcomes, with the exception of the most extreme forms of conflict to which some children are exposed. While continuing our efforts to improve parents' relationships with one another, we should become more invested in helping both parents maintain and strengthen their relationships with their children.

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“…the misrepresentation and misuse of research by advocacy groups for their own political purposes (Nielsen 2014c). A first observation to be made is that the number of studies with babies or toddlers is very limited (Nielsen 2014a). Second, specialists often refer to attachment theory, or at least old concepts from attachment theory like monotrophy (attachment related to a single caregiver) (Warshak 2018) to defend care regimes with one dominant care giver.…”

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

Bernardi

Mortelmans

2021

European Studies of Population

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This introductory chapter provides the rationale for adopting an interdisciplinary approach to study the implications of shared physical custody arrangements for families and their members. The Chapter gives a rapid overview of the current state of the literature on shared physical custody in the legal, sociological and psychological literature and highlights the uncertainties and controversial aspects still open to exploration in this field. It addresses the specific research needs in order to move forward from the current situation, where evidence on shared physical custody produce results that are scattered across disciplines and hard to compare across contexts. It concludes by arguing that the complexity of shared physical custody implications in terms of health, educational, relational and living standards requires research from different disciplinary fields in order to agree on a comprehensive theoretical perspective, standardize definitions and collect longitudinal and comparable data on the custody arrangements and their normative environments.

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Parenting Plans for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Research and Issues

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody: A Longitudinal Study

Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody: A Longitudinal Study

Re-examining the research on parental conflict, coparenting, and custody arrangements.

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

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