Splitting Custody of Children between Parents: Impact on the Sibling System

Kaplan, Lori; Hennon, Charles B.; Ade-Ridder, Linda

doi:10.1177/104438949307400301

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“…In fact, some older siblings grieve the loss of the caregiver role after separation from their younger siblings (Herrick & Piccus, 2005). Some children who are not allowed to continue the role of caregiver for younger siblings may have poorer outcomes, such as feelings of guilt and reduced self-esteem (see Kaplan, Hennon, & Ade-Ridder, 1993). In a survey of caseworkers, the most commonly cited factors in making decisions to place siblings together were alleviating the sense of loss that comes with parental separation and preserving sibling support (Smith, 1998).…”

Section: Foster Care Placementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sibling socialization: The effects of stressful life events and experiences

Conger

Stocker

McGuire

2009

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Stressful life events and experiences may disrupt the typical day-to-day interactions between sisters and brothers that provide the foundation of sibling socialization. This chapter examines four experiences that may affect patterns of sibling interaction: parental marital conflict, parental divorce and remarriage, foster care placement, and a sibling's developmental disability. We propose a model to guide future research on sibling socialization in distressed families and special populations in which qualities of the sibling relationship moderate the effects of stressful life experiences on child and family adjustment.

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Section: Foster Care Placementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sibling socialization: The effects of stressful life events and experiences

Conger

Stocker

McGuire

2009

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…Oldest children in split-custody families were likely to be male and to be living with fathers. Although children overall tended to be living with same-sex parents as often claimed (Atkinson, 1984;Kaplan, Hennon & Ade-Ridder, 1993), age rather than gender of children seemed to be a predictor of paternal custody. Parents more commonly split mixed-sex dyads than same-sex dyads.…”

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“…child alliances (Eno, 1985;Greif, 1990) and thus impairs children's adjustment to divorce (Kaplan, Hennon & Ade-Ridder, 1993). Predictably, split custody further disrupts already disrupted families (Waters & Dimock, 1983) and impedes the development of sibling bonds which generally requires a high level of physical and emotional access between siblings (Bank & Khan, 1982;Hegar, 1988).…”

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“…Such dire predictions seem premature in light of the paucity of published research into families with this post-divorce arrangement (Greif, 1990;Kaplan, Ade-Ridder & Hennon, 1991;Kaplan, Hennon & Ade-Ridder, 1993). In light of inconsistent empirical evidence about sibling relationships in stressful situations, opposition to split custody seemingly stems more from an idealised notion of such relationships.…”

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Split Custody as a Viable Post-Divorce Option

Hawthorne

2000

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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Split custody is an unpopular post-divorce family arrangement because of predictions that it deprives children of sibling support and impedes their adjustment to parents' divorce. The present study collected demographic details of two hundred split-custody families. Fifty-four parents and thirty children completed questionnaires. Thirty-nine of these parents and nineteen children were interviewed.Children's wishes contributed to the adoption of the arrangement in most families. Parents' unhappiness with split custody stemmed from their separation from a child. Children exercised frequent access to noncustodial parents and separated siblings. Split custody did not weaken sibling or parent/child relationships nor lead to parent/child alliances. It appeared to work well in many families for both parents and children.

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“…As a result, state policies and child welfare practice emphasize the importance of maintaining siblings groups and facilitating sibling visits, yet sibling separations still occur (Kaplan et al 1993;Herrick and Piccus 2005). Being placed with one's siblings not only means that a child has one less loss with which to grapple, but siblings may also serve as a support in dealing with other losses (Festinger 1983).…”

Section: Foster Care Placement and Lossmentioning

confidence: 98%

“Nobody Knows Me No More”: Experiences of Loss Among African American Adolescents in Kinship and Non-Kinship Foster Care Placements

Schwartz

2010

Race Soc Probl

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Youth in out-of-home care confront numerous disruptions in relationships and social environments, but how they experience such disruptions and their perception of these changes as losses has received little attention in the research literature. Furthermore, the increased use of kinship foster care raises questions regarding the effect of such placements on children's experience of loss. Due to the overrepresentation of African American children in both the child welfare system and in kinship placements, race is a central variable in understanding the kinship care context and how it impacts loss. Using interview data from 18 African American adolescents in kinship and non-kinship placements, qualitative findings are presented regarding differences in relational and locational disruptions and in perceptions of those disruptions. Compared to non-kinship participants, adolescents in kinship placements experienced fewer disruptions in relationships and location and also experienced the restoration of losses as well as outright relational gains in entering their relative placements. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also discussed.

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Splitting Custody of Children between Parents: Impact on the Sibling System

Cited by 32 publications

References 30 publications

Sibling socialization: The effects of stressful life events and experiences

Sibling socialization: The effects of stressful life events and experiences

Split Custody as a Viable Post-Divorce Option

“Nobody Knows Me No More”: Experiences of Loss Among African American Adolescents in Kinship and Non-Kinship Foster Care Placements

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