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 (145K)
1. Why study parent-child contact? / Bruce Smyth, Ilene Wolcott | PDF (92K)
2. Research design / Bruce Smyth | PDF (80K)
3. Fifty-fifty care / Bruce Smyth, Catherine Caruana, Anna Ferro | PDF (268K)
4. Little or no contact / Bruce Smyth | PDF (132K)
5. Holiday-only contact / Bruce Smyth, Carol Whitfield | PDF (121K)
6. Daytime-only contact / Catherine Caruana, Bruce Smyth | PDF (132K)
7. 'Standard' contact / Anna Ferro | PDF (122K)
8. Points of convergence / Catherine Caruana, Anna Ferro | PDF (87K)
9. The demography of parent-child contact / Bruce Smyth, Lixia Qu, Ruth Weston | PDF (105K)
10. Summary and conclusions / Bruce Smyth | PDF (87K)
Appendix 1: Question guide | PDF (33K)
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