Separation Assault in the Context of Postdivorce Parenting an Integrative Review of the Literature
joint custody studies shared parenting research benefits of joint custody
"Movement-AWAYS"
RELOCATION OF CHILDREN Subsequently DIVORCE
AND CHILDREN'S BEST INTERESTS:
NEW Bear witness AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
The URL for this webpage is http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/braver.html NEW: additional comments by
Prof. Norval D. Glenn, Ph.D. and David Blankenhorn
articulation custody research? THE LAMUSGA V. LAMUSGA CALIFORNIA MOVEAWAY Case
Sanford Fifty. Braver and colleagues Ira M. Ellman and William V. Fabricius released a study (June 25, 2003) purporting to examine* the effects on children whose parents move after divorce. Braver's write-upwards of his findings originally could be found at http://world wide web.apa.org/journals/fam/press_releases/june_2003/fam172206.pdf.
The article commences with a lengthy and inaccurate legal argument and misleading political commentary. The study write-up and press releases were timed to move public opinion in apprehension of the California Supreme Court'south 2003 determination in the LaMusga case. Father's rights groups (pushing joint custody to minimize their financial obligations) and lawyers and psychologists (who make money diddling effectually with people'due south lives in never-ending "therapeutic jurisprudence") heralded the case as a "revisitation of Burgess." The study was desperately conceived and poorly done, only worse than that: Braver, Ellman and Fabricius blatantly misrepresented their findings.
Here are the findings from the study. (*Circumspection that they practice not reflect different family unit issues precipitating the divorce or motility away, and and then really are correlations only.)
WHO WAS STUDIED: Braver et al. compared the characteristics of a bunch of Arizona undergrad psychology students from divorced families, divided up into groups in which post-divorce: (1) neither parent moved, (two) mother moved away with kids, (3) mother moved, leaving kids with begetter, (4) begetter moved with kids, and (5) father moved, leaving kids with female parent.
HOW THEY WERE STUDIED: The students filled out questionnaires.
THE FINDINGS:
PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-ADJUSTMENT: The most well-adjusted grouping in this category were children who remained with their mothers whose fathers moved away. They were better adjusted than children from divorced families where neither parent moved, admitting marginally so. Children who moved with their fathers, or who remained backside with their fathers scored significantly lower on personal and emotional well adjustment than children who remained in the custody of their mothers, regardless of whether the mother moved or not.
GENERAL LIFE SATISFACTION: Children in the custody of their fathers scored lowest on general life satisfaction. Children of divorce whose fathers moved away and left them with their mothers were the nearly satisfied, marginally more satisfied than children from divorced families in which neither parent moved, and significantly more than satisfied than children who either moved or remained behind with their fathers.
HOSTILITY: Children who moved with their fathers, or who remained backside in the custody of their fathers had significantly more than hostility than children in families in which neither divorced parent moved, or who either moved with their mothers or remained backside with their mothers. Children who moved with their mothers showed less hostility than children who remained behind with their mothers (i.due east. whose fathers moved away), but children who remained behind with their mothers whose fathers moved away, while a picayune more than hostile, besides were a little more than well-adapted and satisfied overall.
INNER TURMOIL AND DISTRESS FROM THE DIVORCE: Children from the group in which neither parent moved had the to the lowest degree inner turmoil and distress from the divorce itself. However, the group of children who moved with their mothers or stayed with their mothers when their father moved still had less inner turmoil and distress than children who either moved with their fathers or stayed backside with their fathers when their mothers moved. (It is unclear whether this factor was related to moving per se, or more difficult divorce circumstances, which in turn precipitated a motion. Either way, it is uncorrelated with the children's overall well-adjustedness and life satisfaction.)
PERCEPTION OF PARENT AS "SUPPORTIVE": Children across all categories tended to perceive the parent they lived with as more supportive. However, in general over all categories, children had a higher opinion of their mothers.
"GLOBAL Wellness": Children who moved abroad with their fathers reported significantly lower "global health" than children whose parents did not move, and also lower health than the remaining three groups , which otherwise had no significant differences among them, but did study somewhat lower health than the group whose parents did not move.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF PARENTS TO College: Among the moving categories, children who remained behind with their fathers received significantly less college assistance than did children who remained backside with their mothers (the second nearly supportive category), and children who moved with their fathers (the least supportive category) received significantly less college assistance than did children who moved with their mothers. Children whose parents did not move received significantly more financial assist for higher than children whose parents moved with or without them. (While actually relatively unimportant compared with things similar a kid's well-adjustedness overall, and probably nigh easily remedied by policies that would target this result with particularity -- similar more and ameliorate government funding for education for all children -- this is the finding Braver et al. and the anti-moveaway crowd are touting the most, and information technology's substantially echoed in the odd category immediately below.)
FINANCIAL WORRIES OVER COLLEGE EXPENSES: This category mirrored the actual contributions of parents to children'southward college expenses, every bit we might have guessed.
A few other areas of well-adjustedness were measured, with no important differences in and among the unlike groups of undergraduate college students taking an introductory psychology course (eastward.one thousand. more substance corruption amongst children who alive with their fathers, although we already knew that), and Braver hasn't reported on how these children of divorce measure out up vis a vis children from non-divorced families. The study also tells us nada about children who don't attend college or children who choose to have something other than intoductory psych for their basic degree requirements.
liz
Desire RESEARCH AND CITATIONS? SEE:
Those Joint Custody Studies: Debunked, liz
Articulation Custody -- the Route to Hell is Paved with Expert Intentions, liz
Myths and Facts about Fatherhood: What the Research REALLY Says
Myths and Facts most Maternity: What the Research Really Says
And... Why is this Abet of Calling it "Adult-Kid Sex" And so Interested in Touting Joint Custody? liz debunks Bauserman'south "Meta-analysis."
Comments past Trish Wilson on this new study and Bauserman
What the Experts Say : A Review of the Scholarly Research on Post-Divorce Parenting and Kid Well-existence.
Misplaced Arraign and Simplistic Solutions: DC'south Articulation Custody Presumption, past Margaret Martin Barry -- Scholarly article by police force professor discusses what's wrong with a statute providing for a presumption of joint custody
When Paradigms Collide: Protecting Battered Parents and Their Children in the Family Courtroom Organization, by Clare Dalton, 37 Fam. & Conciliation Courts Rev. 273 (1999)
Margaret Dore, Esq. on "friendly parent" provisions
Zipper 101 for Attorneys: Implications for Babe Placement Decisions, past Eleanor Willemsen and Kristen Marcel
Joint Custody: Implications for Women, past Renee Leff
originally published on the internet at http://www.pgi.edu/pdf/1995journal.pdf
Understanding the Batterer in Visitation and Custody Disputes, past R. Lundy Bancroft. Why corruption may be reported for the first time at the fourth dimension of a separation or divorce; critique of Janet Johnston'southward categories of batterer; more.
Spousal Violence in Custody and Access Disputes, Recommendations for Reform, Nicholas Thousand.C. Bala et al. -- Scholarly commodity by Status of Women Canada Policy Research Fund (1998)
The Psychological Furnishings of Relocation for Children of Divorce, past Marion Gindes, Ph.D., AAML Journal, Vol. 15 (1998), pp. 119
What the Father's Rights movement really looks like, liz
What the "Responsible Fatherhood" movement really is about, liz ... and
Carol S. Bruch, Parental Breach Syndrome and Parental Alienation: GETTING IT WRONG IN Child CUSTODY CASES
Bibliography of other manufactures (to exist supplemented):
Brinig, Margaret F., "Feminism and Child Custody Under Chapter Ii of the American Law Found's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution." viii Duke J. of Gender Fifty. & Pol'y 301 (Spring/Summer 2001).
Kuehl, Sheila J., Against Joint Custody: A General Dissent to the General Bullmoose Theory. Family unit and Conciliation Courts Review (1989), 27 (2) 37-45
Singer, Jana B. & William L. Reynolds, A Dissent on Joint Custody, 47 Md. L. Rev. 497 (1988). The primary caretaker preference eliminates much of the grouse and confusion inherent in custody determinations past awarding custody to the parent who has been most responsible for raising the child.
Waits, Kathleen, "Battered Women and Their Children: Lessons from One Adult female'southward Story," Symposium: Domestic Violence and the Wellness Intendance System. 35 Hous. L. Rev. 29 (1998).
Source: http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/braver.html
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