since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic … violence, and child outcomes. …

While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce … family (in)stability on children's long-term human capital outcomes. The evaluation suggests that exposure to more liberal …

divorce state as a child on education, earnings, and marital status. Women with many years of childhood exposure to unilateral … years of exposure to unilateral divorce as a child. We also explore alternative mechanisms through which unilateral divorce …

private family law. The focus, as the alternative to returning the child, should be to maintain the maximum amount of contact … the quality of the lives of all children? If not, then the system should be scrapped and start over. Child Protective … false moral high-ground, which is perceived from the narrow focus of child-saving rather than on the legitimate and long …