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- Title
Post-divorce parenting patterns.
- Authors
Smyth, Bruce; Sheehan, Grania; Fehlberg, Belinda
- Abstract
In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of shared responsibility for children after parental separation. This is evidenced by changes to the Family Law Act in 1996 which, among other things, replaced the language of "guardian-ship", "custody" and "access" with the less proprietorial "residence" and "contact" (Family Law Reform Act 1995). This article summarises findings of a survey of post-divorce parenting patterns just before the 1996 changes. Data are drawn from the Australian Divorce Transitions Project, a national random telephone survey of 650 divorced Australians conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. A unique feature of the data set is that it includes divorced men and women from a broad range of circumstances, including resident parents, non-resident parents, urban and rural dwellers, and respondents from varying educational and socioeconomic circumstances. The sample on which the present analysis is based comprised 237 divorced parents.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN of divorced parents; DIVORCED parents; PARENTING; SINGLE parents; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 59, p61
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article