Research report No. 9, 2004
Parent-child contact and post-separation parenting arrangements
Edited by Bruce Smyth
Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2004. ISBN 0 642 39512 8.
ISSN 1447-1469 (Print); 1447-1477 (Online)
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Contents
Introductory pages - Foreword; About the authors; Acknowledgements PDF (145 KB)
1. Why study parent-child contact? / Bruce Smyth, Ilene Wolcott | PDF (92 KB)
2. Research design / Bruce Smyth | PDF (80 KB)
3. Fifty-fifty care / Bruce Smyth, Catherine Caruana, Anna Ferro | PDF (268 KB)
4. Little or no contact / Bruce Smyth | PDF (132 KB)
5. Holiday-only contact / Bruce Smyth, Carol Whitfield | PDF (121 KB)
6. Daytime-only contact / Catherine Caruana, Bruce Smyth | PDF (132 KB)
7. 'Standard' contact / Anna Ferro | PDF (122 KB)
8. Points of convergence / Catherine Caruana, Anna Ferro | PDF (87 KB)
9. The demography of parent-child contact / Bruce Smyth, Lixia Qu, Ruth Weston | PDF (105 KB)
10. Summary and conclusions / Bruce Smyth | PDF (87 KB)
Appendix 1: Question guide | PDF (33 KB)
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