1st Edition

Child Custody Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes

By Craig Everett Copyright 1997
252 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you’ll see that divorce is a chain reaction that begins in the courtrooms and branches out into the families of the world, changing the lives of children, parents, and grandparents alike.... Read more
Contents Introduction
  • Judges’ Beliefs Dealing with Child Custody Decisions
  • Evolution of Residential Custody Arrangements in Separated Families: A Longitudinal Study
  • The Impact of an Educational Seminar for Divorcing Parents: Results from a National Survey of Family Court Judges
  • Children Denied Two Parents: An Analysis of Access Denial
  • An Evaluation of the New Hampshire Child Support Guidelines: Using Social Science Research to Shape Child Support Policy
  • Noncustodial Fatherhood: Research Trends and Issues
  • Why Do Fathers Become Disengaged from Their Children’s Lives? Maternal and Paternal Accounts of Divorce in Greece
  • Post-Divorce Father Custody: Are Mothers the True Predictors of Adult Relationship Satisfaction?
  • Stigma, Identity Dissonance, and the Nonresidential Mother
  • The Relation of State Anger to Self-Esteem, Perceptions of Family Structure and Attributions of Responsibility for Divorce of Custodial Mothers in the Stabilization Phase of the Divorce Process
  • Tendency to Stigmatize Lesbian Mothers in Custody Cases
  • Young People’s Attitudes Toward Living in a Lesbian Family: A Longitudinal Study of Children Raised by Post-Divorce Lesbian Mothers
  • Grandparent Involvement Following Divorce: A Comparison in Single-Mother and Single-Father Families
  • Index

Biography

Craig Everett