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Direct linkSwiss, Liam; Le Bourdais, Celine – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
Following divorce or separation, father-child contact is deemed an important influence on child development. Previous research has explored the impact of sociodemographic and attitudinal factors on the amount of contact between fathers and their children following a union dissolution. This article revisits this important question using fathers'…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Child Development, Place of Residence
Peer reviewedBertoia, Carl; Drakich, Janice – Journal of Family Issues, 1993
Interviewed 32 members from fathers' rights groups about postdivorce parenting experiences, troubles with family law practices, and posturing on fathers' rights platform. Fathers presented uniform voice in support of fathers' rights' public image of caring fathers who want men to be recognized as fathers and who are requesting equitable treatment…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Fathers
Peer reviewedCoysh, William S.; And Others – Journal of Family Issues, 1989
Examined postdivorce adjustment of 149 men and 149 women with joint or sole physical custody of their children. Shared custody arrangements and access of parents to their children had no significant relationship to parents' postdivorce adjustment or relationships with their ex-spouses. Prior levels of individual functioning were indicators of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Custody, Divorce, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedAmato, Paul R.; Rezac, Sandra J. – Journal of Family Issues, 1994
Tested hypothesis that children's contact with nonresident parents decreases children's behavior problems when interparental conflict is low but increases children's behavior problems when interparental conflict is high. Analyzed data from 1,285 children in single-parent families. Hypothesis was supported among boys from divorced families; no…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Custody, Children
Peer reviewedBooth, Alan – Journal of Family Issues, 1987
Notes that children whose parents divorce will experience a decline in the quality of their relationship with the noncustodial parent and that many children from divorced families will spend a significant amount of time without an adult male present. Calls for research to examine effects of weakened child-father bond. (NB)
Descriptors: Child Custody, Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life
Peer reviewedGanong, Lawrence H.; And Others – Journal of Family Issues, 1995
Examined normative expectations regarding changes in a child's physical custody following divorce. Subjects (n=309), responding to a vignette about a divorced couple and their 16-year-old son, yielded no significant main or interaction effects. However, themes in open-ended responses, such as the child's wishes should prevail, were apparent. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Custody, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
