Family separation research in the UK

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This article summarises:

• academic research
• sponsored research
• legislative consultation documents
• law review articles, reported cases, etc.

intended for people who are researching the topic of family separation, how it affects children in particular, and which may be useful in family court proceedings in the UK.

Contents 1 ALSPAC 2 Royal College of Psychiatrists 3 Department of Constitutional Affairs 4 Civitas 5 Joseph Rowntree Foundation 6 Economic & Social Research Council 7 Institute for Social and Economic Research 8 Family Policy Studies Centre 9 Miscellaneous 10 Ireland

[edit] ALSPAC

ALSPAC at Bristol University. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) also known as 'Children of the 90s' aims at identifying ways in which to optimise the health and development of children. The purpose of the study is to understand the ways in which the physical and social environment interact, over time, with the genetic inheritance to affect the child's health, behaviour and development. Such knowledge is often useful in forming legal opinion as to what might be in the best interests of a particular child. One article which may be of interest is Mental Health of Parents.

[edit] Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published a paper parental separation/divorve called Divorce or separation of parents: the impact on children and adolescents.

[edit] Department of Constitutional Affairs

The UK's Department of Constitutional Affairs [1]determines the procedures used in family courts and runs a children's issues pageproviding UK Government information about the DCA's work on issues affecting children, including parenting time, and delays in the Family Proceedings Courts under the Children Act 1989. There were changes in the family proceedings rules regarding the disclosure of information relating to family cases, which came uinto effect on 31 October 2005. See Disclosure of information in family proceedings cases involving children (December 2004).

[edit] Civitas

Civitas

• Fatherless Families Study

[edit] Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• Together and apart: Children and parents experiencing separation and divorce

[edit] Economic & Social Research Council

Economic & Social Research Council

• Fathers' involvement is crucial
• Life after divorce: why we should consider the lives of the children in a wider context

[edit] Institute for Social and Economic Research

Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

• Frequency of Divorced Father's Contact with their Children and Child Support

[edit] Family Policy Studies Centre

Family Policy Studies Centre, University of Oxford

• Family Briefing Papers
• Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
• Distress among children whose separated or divorced parents cannot agree arrangements for them, British Journal of Social Work, 33, 227-238, Bream, V. & Buchanan, A., 2003
• Promoting Children's Emotional Well-being - Messages from Research (Ann Buchanan and Barbara Hudson)
• Centre for Research into Parenting and Children, University of Oxford
• The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (ESYTC)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Teachers’ Ratings of Behaviour (for children in various family circumstances)
• Lancaster University (Charlie Lewis)
  • Fathers in Sure Start
  • Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children’s Social Understanding within Social Interaction
  • Social Cognition
• University of Leeds
  • Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
• DFES
  • Child Contact Survey 2003 in which 77% of parents living apart from their children indicated that they saw them either every day, or at least once a week, or at least once a month, whereas 14% said they never saw them at all.
• UNICEF
  • The State of the World's Children (Annual)
• SPARC Separated Parents Access and Resource Centre
  • Divorce-related Malicious Mother Syndrome
• Institute for Psychological Therapies
  • Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: A Complex Type of Emotional Abuse Responsible for Some False Allegations of Child Abuse in Divorce
• Fathers Direct[2]
  • What good are fathers?
• FLINT - A politically independent social policy research centre

[edit] Ireland

Article The Custody Conundrum: Analysing Parental Rights in Ireland by Illan Wall in 2003.

“The welfare of the children is of the first and paramount importance.”

The Welfare Principle is the guiding factor in how the Irish courts deal with custody, access and guardianship cases. The article examines the welfare principle test to look at the inequities in one of the oldest pieces of family legislation on the statute books, examining in particular the issues of physical abuse, access to an abusive parent, and Parental Alienation Syndrome. Published by Cork On Line Law Review