Custody Award Following the Separation of Same-Sex Marriages: The Great Unknown

Cabello, José Manuel Jiménez; Ruíz, Diego Becerril; Prados, José Luis Paniza; Cañaveral, Inmaculada Puertas

doi:10.1080/01494929.2021.1995563

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“…Further, given that shared placement may imply a higher level of overall parental resources, with both parents providing material and financial resources and devoting caregiving time, it may not be surprising that families with more resources-including financial and human capital resources such as higher levels of education, higher incomes, and legal representation-are more likely to make use of shared placement arrangements than other families (Bartfeld, 2011;Berman & Daneback, 2020;Cancian et al, 2014;Melli & Brown, 2008). In keeping with the association between shared placement and equitable gender roles, there is some evidence that shared custody rates may be higher for same-sex couples (Gartrell et al, 2011;Jiménez-Cabello et al, 2022). In addition to parental characteristics, characteristics of children are also associated with placement type, including mixed evidence on children's ages (Juby et al, 2005;Meyer et al, 2017) and some evidence that shared placement may be more likely in cases with male children (Cancian et al, 2014).…”

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Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Costanzo

Reilly

2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveWe aim to examine the prevalence of shared placement in nonmarital cases, and we then consider whether and how nonmarital shared placement cases differ from sole mother cases across a variety of case characteristics and child support outcomes.BackgroundIn recent decades, shared placement has become increasingly common after divorce, but less is known about the prevalence of shared placement in nonmarital cases. Shared placement may have important implications for families, and little is known about its prevalence in cases of unmarried parents or about characteristics of nonmarital families that have shared placement arrangements.MethodLeveraging unique administrative data on more than 6,000 nonmarital court cases, we examine the prevalence of shared placement, case characteristics of shared placement compared with sole placement cases, and child support measures by placement type. We use multivariate regression and bivariate analyses.ResultsAlthough sole mother placement remains the norm, data indicate an increase in shared placement arrangements in recent cohorts of nonmarital cases. We find parents with shared placement arrangements tend to be slightly more advantaged across several measures. On average, shared placement cases have lower child support orders and payments and substantively higher compliance rates in the year after petition.ConclusionShared placement is increasing in nonmarital cases in recent years. Nonmarital families who have shared placement arrangements differ in important ways from families with sole mother custody.ImplicationsFindings suggest the importance of expanding the relevant shared placement literature and policy discussion to consider nonmarital cases in addition to divorce cases.

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Shared placement in nonmarital families: An initial look

Costanzo

Reilly

2023

Family Relations

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“…In addition, the last several decades have also witnessed a great increase in the number of children living in households headed by sexual minority or LGBTQ* couples (Cao et al, 2016 ; Gates, 2013 ; Patterson et al, 2021 ; Russell et al, 2020 ). Yet, we still know very little about the dissolution experiences of sexual minority unions and the associations between pre/postdisruption interparental conflicts and children’s adjustment trajectories within these families (Farr et al, 2020 ; Gahan, 2017 , 2018 ; Goldberg & Romero, 2018 ; Goldberg, & Allen, 2013 ; Jiménez-Cabello et al, 2021 ; Tasker, 2013 ). Moreover, the legalization of same‐sex marriage in many countries as a landmark (Cao et al, 2017 ; Dush & Manning, 2022 ; Frost, 2015 ) has further contributed to the heterogeneity within the group of sexual minority couples.…”

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The Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model: The Shaping Role of Predivorce and Postdivorce Interparental Conflict

Cao

Fine

Zhou

2022

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Divorce has been conceptualized as a process. Research has extensively demonstrated that it is pre/postdivorce family environment factors that primarily account for the variability in children's adaptation over parental divorce process rather than the legal divorce per se. Amongst various factors, interparental conflict has been consistently identified as a prominent one. Surprisingly, a single source is still lacking that comprehensively synthesizes the extant findings. This review fills this gap by integrating the numerous findings across studies into a more coherent Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model to illustrate that pre/postdivorce interparental conflict plays crucial roles in shaping child adaptation trajectories across parental divorce process. This review also summarizes the mechanisms (e.g., child cognitive and emotional processes, coparenting, parent-child relations) via which pre/postdivorce interparental conflict determines these trajectories and the factors (e.g., child gender and age, child coping, grandparental support) that interact with pre/postdivorce interparental conflict to further complicate these trajectories. In addition, echoing the call of moving beyond the monolithic conceptualization of pre/postdivorce interparental conflict, we also review studies on the differential implications of different aspects (e.g., frequency versus intensity) and types (e.g., overt versus covert) of interparental conflict for child adjustment. Last, limitations of prior studies and avenues for future research are discussed. The proposed framework may serve as a common knowledge base for researchers to compare/interpret results, detect cutting edges of the fields, and design new studies. The specificity, complexity, nuance, and diversity inherent within our proposed model await to be more fully revealed.

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