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Post-Divorce: Kids Who Spend Equal Time With Both Parents Do Well
The study, commissioned by the federal Attorney General, is based on the responses of 1028 parents and 136 children, as well as other data.
It was conducted by a team led by University of NSW researchers, and it is part of a government-funded investigation into the impact of 2006 reforms to the Family Law Act.
The study found that when parents have no fears for their children's safety or for their own, most can make shared care work, and many mothers like the break and many children think the arrangement is "fair".
"On the whole, the more contact a child has with both parents, the better for the child," the Age quoted Professor Ilan Katz, the chief investigator, as saying.
"But if you impose shared care on situations where parents live far apart, where there is conflict, and the child doesn't like it and wants stability, it can be damaging," Katz stated.
The study found it was not the care arrangements that made the difference to a child's well being after separation but the parents' relationship, fair sharing of finances, and whether the living arrangement had been imposed by a court.
The report says the explanation for the relatively high well being of children in shared care may lie with the characteristics of parents who choose that path.
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