Children's contact after separation? factors associated with contact, changes in contact, and the parents who become nonresident.

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Children's contact after separation; factors associated with contact, changes in contact, and the parents who become nonresident.

New research from One Parent Families|Gingerbread - July 2007. Vicki Peacey and Tina Haux

Abstract

The composition of families in Britain today means that an increasing proportion of children will spend some time growing up with their parents living apart. Maintaining children's contact with the parent they no longer live can be a challenge for many families.

This paper focuses on three aspects, namely, factors influencing contact, changes to contact patterns over time and the characteristics of partners in households who go on to leave the household. The data is based on analysis of longitudinal data from the Families and Children Study (2002 - 2004).

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Vicki Peacey is Research and Policy Officer at One Parent Families. Tina Haux is completing a PhD at the University of Bath.

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the Nuffield Foundation for their support and making this research possible (grant number CPF/32648). We would also like to thank Nick Lyon from the National Centre for Social Research, Joan Hunt from the University of Oxford, and Susan Harkness from the University of Bath, who have made very valuable contributions to this paper.

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