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International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 2006 20(3):344-365; doi:10.1093/lawfam/ebl016
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International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 20, No. 3, © The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Contact/Shared Residence and Child Well-Being: Research Evidence and its Implications for Legal Decision-Making

Stephen Gilmore*

* Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East London, UK; tutor in Family Law, University of Oxford. E-mail: Stephen.gilmore{at}law.ox.ac.uk.

This article considers the implications for legal decision-making of one aspect of research on children’s adjustment to parental separation: the significance for child well-being of maintaining a relationship with both parents, either by way of contact with a non-resident parent or by means of a shared (dual) residence arrangement (known in some jurisdictions as ‘joint physical custody’). It is argued that policy-makers who have rejected recent calls for a statutory presumption of child/non-resident parent contact, or of equal division of a child’s time between parents, have acted appropriately in the light of the research evidence.


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