Abstract
This article considers the implications for legal decision-making of one aspect of research on children’s adjustment to parental separation: the significance for child well-being of maintaining a relationship with both parents, either by way of contact with a non-resident parent or by means of a shared (dual) residence arrangement (known in some jurisdictions as ‘joint physical custody’). It is argued that policy-makers who have rejected recent calls for a statutory presumption of child/non-resident parent contact, or of equal division of a child’s time between parents, have acted appropriately in the light of the research evidence.
Original language | English |
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Article number | N/A |
Pages (from-to) | 344-365 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2006 |