Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe

Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
Author: Michaela Kreyenfeld
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030445755

This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how legal regulations and social policies influence parental and child well-being after divorce and separation. It also illustrates how social policies are interwoven with the normative fabric of a country. For example, it is shown that father-child contact after separation is more intense in those countries which have adopted policies that encourage shared parenting. Correspondingly, countries that have adopted these regulations are at the forefront of more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Apart from a strong emphasis on the legal and social policy context, the studies in this volume adopt a longitudinal perspective and situate post-separation behaviour and well-being in the life course. The longitudinal perspective opens up new avenues for research to understand how behaviour and conditions prior or at divorce and separation affect later behaviour and well-being. As such this book is of special appeal to scholars of family research as well as to anyone interested in the role of divorce and separation in Europe in the 21st century.

The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing

The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing
Author: Benjamin Scafidi
Publisher: Broadway Publications
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781931764148

This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels. Based on the methodology, we estimated that U.S. taxpayers were affected at least $112 billion each and every year, or more than $1 trillion each decade.

Parenting Plan Evaluations

Parenting Plan Evaluations
Author: Kathryn Kuehnle
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2012
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199754020

When conducting parenting plan evaluations, mental health professionals need to be aware of a myriad of different factors. More so than in any other form of forensic evaluation, they must have an understanding of the most current findings in developmental research, behavioral psychology, attachment theory, and legal issues to substantiate their opinions. With a number of publications on child custody available, there is an essential need for a text focused on translating the research associated with the most important topics within the family court. This book addresses this gap in the literature by presenting an organized and in-depth analysis of the current research and offering specific recommendations for applying these findings to the evaluation process. Written by experts in the child custody arena, chapters cover issues associated with the most important and complex issues that arise in family court, such as attachment and overnight timesharing with very young children, dynamics between divorced parents and children's potential for resiliency, co-parenting children with chronic medical conditions and developmental disorders, domestic violence during separation and divorce, gay and lesbian co-parents, and relocation, among others. The scientific information provided in these chapters assists forensic mental health professionals to proffer empirically-based opinions, conclusions and recommendations. Parenting Plan Evaluations is a must-read for legal practitioners, family law judges and attorneys, and other professionals seeking to understand more about the science behind child custody evaluations.

Innocent Spouse

Innocent Spouse
Author: Carol Ross Joynt
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030759209X

Traces how the author learned after her husband's sudden death that he owed millions of dollars in taxes to the IRS and that she was going to be held liable or even imprisoned, and recounts her long journey toward recovery and independence.

Aftermath

Aftermath
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1466820187

In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed—"a jigsaw dismantled"—it is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. "Aftermath" originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit that will help us understand our own.

A Better, Not Bitter Divorce

A Better, Not Bitter Divorce
Author: Bj Mann
Publisher: Hopehill Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780692994566

Divorce does not have to be a bitter ordeal-and no one knows this better than BJ Mann, a leading divorce mediator in Upstate New York. In A Better, Not Bitter Divorce: The Fair and Affordable Way to End Your Marriage, BJ brings you the wealth of information she has put to use in her work with thousands of divorcing couples.