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Stephanie Holt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a voice or a choice children s views on participating in decisions about post Separation Contact with domestically abusive fathers
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2018Co-Authors: Stephanie HoltAbstract:The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly calls for children to be granted the right to participate in legal proceedings that affect them. Despite this legal obligation an...
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post Separation fathering and domestic abuse challenges and contradictions
Child Abuse Review, 2015Co-Authors: Stephanie HoltAbstract:This paper explores the experience of post-Separation fathering, in the context of a prior history of domestic abuse from the perspectives of mothers, fathers, children and professionals participating in a three-year doctoral research project. A mixed methodological research design conducted over two phases involved both the completion of survey questionnaires by 219 mothers and the participation in focus groups and individual interviews by children and young people, mothers, fathers and professionals. The findings highlight clear evidence of post-Separation Contact facilitating the continued abuse of women and children. The findings also highlight a lack of attention to the parenting of abusive men who were identified as struggling to realise their fathering aspirations and take responsibility for the impact of their abusive behaviour on their children and ex-partners. Particular constructions of family life are found to sustain the often unmonitored presence of abusive men in post-Separation family life. This paper concludes by asserting the need to prioritise the construction of fathers as ‘risk’ in the context of post-Separation father-child Contact. Doing so does not mean excluding fathers from children's lives; rather, what is critical is to find ways to ensure that abusive men can be ‘good enough’ fathers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ‘Clear evidence of post-Separation Contact facilitating the continued abuse of women and children’ Key Practitioner Messages Separation is not a ‘vaccine against domestic violence’, with women and children at risk of continued abuse in the post-Separation period. Abusive men need to be held responsible for their abusive behaviour before the potential for safe Contact can be considered. All of the key players – mothers, children and fathers – may need support from the impact that domestic violence has on parenting capacity and family life. ‘Abusive men need to be held responsible for their abusive behaviour before the potential for safe Contact can be considered’
Platt Lucinda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Staying involved? The relationship between pre-Separation fathering and post-Separation Contact
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020Co-Authors: Haux Tina, Platt LucindaAbstract:Parental Separations are on the rise, and nearly half of all children growing up in the UK today are not living with both biological parents by the time they reach adulthood. Using prospective analysis of a large UK longitudinal study, Tina Haux and Lucinda Platt ask: are fathers who stay in more frequent Contact different from those who lose touch? They identify a modest association between pre-Separation fathering and post-Separation Contact. But even for more involved fathers this declines over time
Haux Tina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Staying involved? The relationship between pre-Separation fathering and post-Separation Contact
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020Co-Authors: Haux Tina, Platt LucindaAbstract:Parental Separations are on the rise, and nearly half of all children growing up in the UK today are not living with both biological parents by the time they reach adulthood. Using prospective analysis of a large UK longitudinal study, Tina Haux and Lucinda Platt ask: are fathers who stay in more frequent Contact different from those who lose touch? They identify a modest association between pre-Separation fathering and post-Separation Contact. But even for more involved fathers this declines over time
Nicola Gavey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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i could only work every second sunday the role of separated fathers in the labour market participation of separated mothers when they re in dispute over care and Contact arrangements
Women's Studies Journal, 2013Co-Authors: Vivienne Elizabeth, Julia Tolmie, Nicola GaveyAbstract:AbstractOver the past thirty to forty years there has been a noticeable change in the frequency and duration of Contact separated fathers have with children who mostly live apart from them. A number of researchers attribute this social change to several mutually reinforcing social factors, including the increased participation of mothers in paid work, and the increased involvement of fathers in childcare. This well-rehearsed claim implies that fathers' involvement in childcare in intact and separated families is both a response to and a facilitator of maternal paid employment. Given the centrality of such claims to decisions about the post-Separation care of children and to child support policy, it is important to consider whether they have any substance in reality. Drawing on international literature on the division of caring labour, and a small-scale qualitative study with separated mothers from New Zealand in dispute over care and Contact arrangements, this paper investigates the claims being made about the role fathers play in relation to maternal employment, especially in the post-Separation context. On the basis of this research, we argue that even though fathers have the potential to play a supportive role in post-Separation maternal paid employment, this potential is not necessarily realised and should not be assumed or taken for granted. Rather, the role separated fathers do and might play in enabling separated mothers to engage in paid work should be a matter of empirical investigation, both by academics working in the field and by practitioners working with separated parents.Key wordsmaternal employment, post-Separation, fathers, childcareIntroductionWe know very little about the relationship between post-Separation care and Contact arrange- ments and mothers' patterns of paid employment. What we do know is that there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of non-resident fathers maintaining Contact, in some in- stances significant Contact, with their children (Amato, Meyers & Emery, 2009). For instance, studies in the United States (US) indicate that in 1976 only 18 percent of fathers saw their children at least once a week, whereas by 2002 this had risen to 31 percent of fathers (ibid.). Over the same time period the proportion of non-resident fathers who had no Contact with their children declined from 37 percent in 1976 to 29 percent in 2002.1 We also know that there has been a cultural shift in custody law and practice in the direction of substantial post-Separation Contact and even physical shared care (Tolmie, Elizabeth & Gavey, 2010a).Speculatively, Juby, Le Bourdais and Marcil-Gratton (2005) suggest that as more intact cou- ples become dual earner we will witness a corresponding rise in post-Separation shared physi- cal care arrangements. According to Juby et al. (2005), a key facilitator of this anticipated rise is enhanced maternal confidence in paternal domestic and childrearing skills borne out of the greater experience fathers in dual income, intact households have in these roles. Indeed, Juby et al. (2005) attribute the growth in shared physical care post-Separation that can already be observed in most Western legislatures to more egalitarian pre-Separation care arrangements.Similarly, and also speculatively, Smyth and Moloney (2008) attribute the increase in the frequency and duration of Contact between separated fathers and their children over the last forty years to, inter alia, the increased participation of mothers in paid work in intact families, and the increased involvement of fathers in childcare activities both prior to and after separa- tion. Arguing in the reverse direction, Callister and Birks (2006) claim that increases in father Contact time are by definition facilitative of women's paid employment post-Separation since it increases the amount of time that mothers have available to be involved in paid work through the provision of replacement childcare at no cost. …
Vivienne Elizabeth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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i could only work every second sunday the role of separated fathers in the labour market participation of separated mothers when they re in dispute over care and Contact arrangements
Women's Studies Journal, 2013Co-Authors: Vivienne Elizabeth, Julia Tolmie, Nicola GaveyAbstract:AbstractOver the past thirty to forty years there has been a noticeable change in the frequency and duration of Contact separated fathers have with children who mostly live apart from them. A number of researchers attribute this social change to several mutually reinforcing social factors, including the increased participation of mothers in paid work, and the increased involvement of fathers in childcare. This well-rehearsed claim implies that fathers' involvement in childcare in intact and separated families is both a response to and a facilitator of maternal paid employment. Given the centrality of such claims to decisions about the post-Separation care of children and to child support policy, it is important to consider whether they have any substance in reality. Drawing on international literature on the division of caring labour, and a small-scale qualitative study with separated mothers from New Zealand in dispute over care and Contact arrangements, this paper investigates the claims being made about the role fathers play in relation to maternal employment, especially in the post-Separation context. On the basis of this research, we argue that even though fathers have the potential to play a supportive role in post-Separation maternal paid employment, this potential is not necessarily realised and should not be assumed or taken for granted. Rather, the role separated fathers do and might play in enabling separated mothers to engage in paid work should be a matter of empirical investigation, both by academics working in the field and by practitioners working with separated parents.Key wordsmaternal employment, post-Separation, fathers, childcareIntroductionWe know very little about the relationship between post-Separation care and Contact arrange- ments and mothers' patterns of paid employment. What we do know is that there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of non-resident fathers maintaining Contact, in some in- stances significant Contact, with their children (Amato, Meyers & Emery, 2009). For instance, studies in the United States (US) indicate that in 1976 only 18 percent of fathers saw their children at least once a week, whereas by 2002 this had risen to 31 percent of fathers (ibid.). Over the same time period the proportion of non-resident fathers who had no Contact with their children declined from 37 percent in 1976 to 29 percent in 2002.1 We also know that there has been a cultural shift in custody law and practice in the direction of substantial post-Separation Contact and even physical shared care (Tolmie, Elizabeth & Gavey, 2010a).Speculatively, Juby, Le Bourdais and Marcil-Gratton (2005) suggest that as more intact cou- ples become dual earner we will witness a corresponding rise in post-Separation shared physi- cal care arrangements. According to Juby et al. (2005), a key facilitator of this anticipated rise is enhanced maternal confidence in paternal domestic and childrearing skills borne out of the greater experience fathers in dual income, intact households have in these roles. Indeed, Juby et al. (2005) attribute the growth in shared physical care post-Separation that can already be observed in most Western legislatures to more egalitarian pre-Separation care arrangements.Similarly, and also speculatively, Smyth and Moloney (2008) attribute the increase in the frequency and duration of Contact between separated fathers and their children over the last forty years to, inter alia, the increased participation of mothers in paid work in intact families, and the increased involvement of fathers in childcare activities both prior to and after separa- tion. Arguing in the reverse direction, Callister and Birks (2006) claim that increases in father Contact time are by definition facilitative of women's paid employment post-Separation since it increases the amount of time that mothers have available to be involved in paid work through the provision of replacement childcare at no cost. …
