Shared Physical Custody

Shared Physical Custody : Does It Benefit Most Children ?

A Time Varying Evaluation of Identity Theory and Father Involvement for Full Custody, Shared Custody, and No Custody Divorced Fathers.

This study tested identity theory models of father involvement for 230 divorced fathers of young children aged 4 to 11 followed over 18 months. Research questions were (1) Do measures of identity salience and centrality of the fathering role predict fathering involvement over time? (2) Does father involvement predict fathering identity over time? (3) Does father custody moderate these relations...

Parenting Time & Shared Residential Custody: Ten Common Myths

T H E N E B R A S K A L A W Y E R j A N u A R Y / f E B R u A R Y 2 0 1 3 What is the best parenting plan for most children of divorce? Should infants and toddlers spend overnight time with their nonresidential parent? If not, why not? If so, how much time? Is shared residential custody better for children than living with one parent and varying amounts of time living with their other parent – ...

Risk behaviour in Swedish adolescents: is shared physical custody after divorce a risk or a protective factor?

BACKGROUND The increase in shared physical custody in Sweden has been dramatic; 20 years ago only a small percentage of adolescents lived in shared physical custody, but currently ∼30% of the adolescents whose parents have separated or divorced divide their residence between parents. We hypothesized that living in shared physical custody or in a single-parent family is associated with a higher ...

The Growth in Shared Custody in the Us: Patterns and Implications

We document the dramatic decline in the United States of mother sole-custody arrangements following divorce. Our empirical analysis uses Wisconsin Court Records data spanning more than two decades (1988–2010). Updating earlier analyses that showed significant increases in shared custody, we estimate that shared custody (where children spend at least 25% of time with each parent) has now replace...