University of Wisconsin - Madison 2 XL 7 a ' Institute for Research on Poverty
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Demographic studies of family relationships frequently equate household composition with family membership. High rates of divorce and parent-child separation challenge this assumption. Parental rights and responsibilities may continue even when parents and children live apart. This paper describes the legal and physical custody arrangements adopted by a repre.entatlve sample of recent divorce cases. These data show that legal and physical custody do n o t co~ncide in a substantial minority of cases. The most common arrangement, honever, 1s .till to assign both legal and physical custody to mothers. The paper also examines the social and demographic factors that predict legal and physical custody arrangements The d~laljsis shows that parents' inconlr IS a Itlore important determinant of legal custodj. m hereas children's ages predict physical ( ustody.
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