Depending on jurisdiction, time period studied, and specifics of the population, approximately 50 percent of mothers who suffer from schizophrenia lose custody of their children. The aim of this paper is to recommend interventions aimed at preventing unnecessary custody loss. This paper reviews the social work, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, and law literature on mental illness and custody lo...

Abstract In this chapter, we identify structural features of families with shared physical custody that differ from those nuclear or where one parent has sole custody, and discuss the implications for family kin relationships. We pay particular attention to ways in which alters gendered nature parenting kinship. argue create distinct contexts parent-child sibling relationships produce differenc...

The purpose of this essay is to critically assess feminist lawyer Carol Smart’s analysis of and suggestions on issues about legal regulations and practices of child custody. She thinks the privileged status of mothers in modern family law system will be threatening by new voices and images from fathers and by the increasing interventions from professional. The discourse of ‘the best interests o...

In many countries, joint custody has replaced and is considered better than sole custody. It also deemed more in line with the gender equality principle which demands both parents to share responsibility for care of child post-divorce. This article discusses how judges divorce cases decide on custody, extent they consider merits or demand divorcees making a parenting plan best interest their ch...

Portugal registered, since the mid-1990s, an exponential increase in family disputes over children. This article tries to frame and understand this growth, analysing motivations underlying child custody judicial cases, dividing them into three non-exclusive categories: access children, alimony administrative certification. The analysis reveals how change continuity intersect post-separation par...

The American Psychological Association Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Divorce Proceedings (American Psychological Association, 1994) stresses the need for a multi-method evaluation, reasoning that by considering data from different approaches, we can best ensure the validity of our findings in making custody recommendations. One of the primary issues in custody evaluations is asses...