2002
DOI: 10.1002/chi.702
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Children's involvement in their parents' divorce: implications for practice

Abstract: The paper reports findings from a research study that explored children's experience of divorce. It shows that children experience parental divorce as a crisis in their lives but that they are able to mobilise internal and external resources to regain a new point of balance. In doing so, children demonstrate the degree to which they are active and competent participants in the process of family dissolution. The implications of the data are then considered in relation to engaging with children involved in divor… Show more

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“…Views of the child as lacking or incompetent are also not well aligned, with research both in Australia and overseas supporting the idea that involving children in decisions that affect them and taking their views seriously has far reaching benefits for all stakeholders (Butler, Scanlon, Robinson, Douglas & Murch 2002;Cashmore 2003;Smart et al 2001;Smith et al 2003). These benefits include:…”
Section: Welfare and Rights Discourses In The Australian Family Law Cmentioning
confidence: 94%
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“…Views of the child as lacking or incompetent are also not well aligned, with research both in Australia and overseas supporting the idea that involving children in decisions that affect them and taking their views seriously has far reaching benefits for all stakeholders (Butler, Scanlon, Robinson, Douglas & Murch 2002;Cashmore 2003;Smart et al 2001;Smith et al 2003). These benefits include:…”
Section: Welfare and Rights Discourses In The Australian Family Law Cmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Children attach immense importance to being listened to, and to participating in the decision-making processes that profoundly affect them, with those children who have had some involvement in their residence and contact arrangements also indicating higher degrees of satisfaction with the arrangements subsequently made (Butler et al 2002). Yet, children consistently report their exclusion from discussions about their parents' separation and divorce and the changes that this brings to their lives.…”
Section: Welfare and Rights Discourses In The Australian Family Law Cmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Second, children feel that they lack information on what is happening in their particular household, with respect to their own parents' relationships (Brannen et al, 2000;Butler et al, 2000;Dunn and Deater-Deckard, 2001;Smith, 2000). Parents, and particularly mothers, are typically the people in children's lives that they first turn to if they have a problem (Brannen et al, 2000;Buchanan et al, 2001), but this route to information, support and comfort may not be available for children in situations of parental separation or divorce because the parents themselves are typically under emotional stress (Buchanan et al, 2001;Butler et al, 2002).…”
Section: Research In England and Walesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…It is argued that theories have undervalued the importance of context so critical in cases of disputed custody (James, 2001(James, , 2007. From this viewpoint, children are considered to be the most reliable witnesses of their own experience (Butler, Scanlan, Robinson, Douglas, & Murch, 2002). Many believe children have a right to participate and are entitled to have a say rather than be protected from decision-making (Trinder, 1997).…”
Section: Changing Constructions Of Childhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%