User:Matthew Stannard/list of family separation research articles

This article lists external links to:
 * academic research
 * sponsored research
 * legislative consultation documents
 * law review articles, reported cases, etc.

intended for people who are interested in the topic of family separation and how it affects children in particular. The links here are arranged by country.

Ireland

 * Cork On Line Law Review
 * The Custody Conundrum: Analysing Parental Rights in Ireland

United Kingdom

 * ALSPAC at Bristol University The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) also known as 'Children of the 90s' is aimed at identifying ways in which to optimise the health and development of children.
 * Mental Health of Parents
 * The Royal College of Psychiatrists
 * Divorce or separation of parents: the impact on children and adolescents
 * Department of Constitutional Affairs
 * DCA children's issues page providing 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.


 * Disclosure of information in family proceedings cases involving children (December 2004)


 * Civitas
 * Fatherless Families Study
 * Joseph Rowntree Foundation
 * Together and apart: Children and parents experiencing separation and divorce
 * Economic & Social Research Council
 * Fathers' involvement is crucial
 * Life after divorce: why we should consider the lives of the children in a wider context
 * Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
 * Frequency of Divorced Father's Contact with their Children and Child Support
 * 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)
 * 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
 * What good are fathers?
 * FLINT - A politically independent social policy research centre

United States

 * American Psychological Association, 24 March 2002 Children likely to be better adjusted in joint vs sole custody arrangements in most cases, according to review of research
 * American Association of Suicidology Divorced/separated men commit suicide 400% more than women (See 5, 15).
 * American Payroll Association 70% of child support is paid through wage withholding dollars. Newly hired employees names are reported to a national dad database for collections.
 * Federal Reserve Bank Divorce linked to personal bankruptcy
 * National Association of Women Lawyers Convinced the American Bar Association to create the Family Law section in the courts, then introduced no-fault divorce law in 1960 (cf. Uniform Divorce Bill)
 * National Center for State Courts "Although some states have not formed gender bias task forces, many courts are working toward the ideal of total equality and fairness." - State Task Force Reports
 * National Marriage Project, Rutgers University "Continuing decline of the marriage rate accompanied by an increase in the number of cohabiting couples; a small increase in the percentage of children living in fragile families and born out of wedlock; and a sharp increase among teenage boys in their acceptance of unwed childbearing and a slight decrease in agreement among teenagers, especially girls, that "living together before getting married is a good idea." - 2004 Social Health of Marriage in America
 * National Marriage Project, Rutgers University "Today’s young adults are at greater risk for marital failure than any earlier generation in the nation’s history. As a consequence of the thirty years of high divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing, more and more young people are growing up with no personal life experience of successful marriage and little or no confidence that they could be in an enduring marital relationship." (See "About the Project")
 * Perspective on marriage, divorce, and men avoiding divorce, biblical
 * Social Security Administration Up to $4.1 billion available to states that create support and arrearage orders, and then collect (See 6B, 6C, & 6D).
 * State Justice Institute "Established by Federal Law in 1984 to award grand to improve the quality of Justice in State courts."
 * State's District Court 85% of order of protections are awarded to females, 7% of petitions denied
 * The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics was founded in 1994. Executive Order No. 13045 Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood
 * U.S. Census Bureau 84% of child support providers are men
 * U.S. Census Bureau Annual support payments increase 18% to $40 billion paid by 7.8 million separated parents, 6.6 million are fathers
 * U.S. Census Bureau Of the 12 million one-parent family, 10 million are maintained by women (group excludes remarriage) (See p. 8).
 * U.S. Census Bureau 15% of men are awarded custody, unchanged since 1994 (See p. 1).
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Divorced children raised by mother score lower on average than children with continuously married parents on measures of academic success, conduct, psychological adjustment, social competence, and long-term health outcomes.
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 6% of mothers and 3% of fathers self-report having physically abused their children, defined as having hit the child with a fist or kicked the child, thrown the child or knocked them down, choked or burned the child, or used a knife or gun against the child.
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 87% of mothers and 73% of fathers reported that they hugged their children or showed them physical affection at least once a day. Similarly high percentages reported telling their children daily that they love them (See Parenting).
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services While 40% of children whose fathers live outside the home have no contact with their fathers, the other 60% had contact an average of 69 days in the last year
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Men are much more likely than women to believe that two parents are more effective at raising children than one parent alone.
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families 41% of the time children were maltreated by mother alone vs. 18% by father alone
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - National Center for Health Statistics 1 in 2 Marriages end in divorce OR, of the 4.4 million people married in 2003, statistically, all of them are divorced by December 2004.
 * U.S. Department of Justice 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually (See p. iv).
 * U.S. Department of Justice: Office on Violence Against Women More than $1 billion spent to police and prosecutors to protect women from men. Since 1995, when a wife feels fearful, it is domestic violence. Divorce attorneys practice leveraging this assault charge into an order of protection to get a man out of the home, physically separating him from children and property.
 * Violence Against Women Act and NOW Domestic violence redefined to "seeks to control the thoughts, beliefs, or conduct of their intimate partner" (NOW) from "physical abuse" (American Heritage).
 * Child Support Enforcement FY 2003 Preliminary Data Report by Sherri Z. Heller, Ed.D. Commissioner Child Support Enforcement "unpaid child support debt, which is approaching $100 billion, according to states' reports...Clearly, we need to design and implement more effective strategies to collect arrears...We know that about half of the debt is owed to the government, and not to the families." (See "Arrears Increase to $96 Billion")
 * American Academy of Child & Adult Psychiatry - Facts for Families The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. The AACAP provides this important information as a public service and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free of charge as long as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is properly credited and no profit is gained from their use.
 * There isn't one print magazine devoted to fatherhood.