Does Shared Parenting Help or Hurt Children in High Conflict Divorced Families?

ABSTRACT: Despite a recent shift in the allocation of parenting time arrangements following divorce, there is no clear consensus regarding the effects of shared parenting on children's adjustment in high conflict families. We propose key questions and methodological options to increase the ability of results from well-designed empirical studies to inform practice and policy. We review eleven studies of the relations between parenting time and quality of parenting with children's adjustment in high conflict divorced families. Despite heterogeneity of the methods used across the studies some tentative conclusions can be made based on findings across multiple studies. Higher levels of shared parenting were related to poorer child adjustment in samples with high conflict many years following the divorce

SUBMITTER: Mahrer NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986964 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature