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ALLOCATING CUSTODIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AT DIVORCE
Author(s) -
Kelly Robert F.,
Ward Shawn L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.2002.tb00846.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , child custody , family law , psychology , law , political science , law and economics , sociology , computer science , programming language
The American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations contains a set of detailed reform proposals for the allocation of custodial responsibility for children among parents, including the approximation rule . This article examines two bodies of social science evidence that explicitly or implicitly were used to justify the approximation rule, attachment theory and research and research on the impact on children of shared parenting arrangements subsequent to divorce . These two bodies of evidence used to justify the approximation rule are reviewed and evaluated to provide an assessment of its social‐based rationales.