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Zusatztext ...a thoroughly enjoyable read...provides up-to-the-minute evidence to support assumptions often made in this field...I would recommend this text principally to academics and students (both under and postgraduate) studying the socio-legal aspects of parental separation and childcare. It is! however! also likely that practitioners specialising in the field will find this text a worthwhile read. Informationen zum Autor Mavis Maclean is Co-Founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK.Photo courtesy of the University of Oxford: https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/people/profile/maclean/index.html Klappentext This volume brings together a wealth of new empirical research from the USA! Central! North Western and Southern Europe! and Australia on the nature and importance of children's relationships with parents after parental separation. Zusammenfassung This book contains empirical research on the nature and importance of children's relationships with parents after parental separation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Conflicted Contact between Parents and Children after Separation1Mavis MacleanPart 1: The Changing Landscape of Relationships1. Improving the Quality of Parent–child Contact in Separating FamiliesMichael E Lamb2. Why Some Children see their Father and Others do not; Questions Arising from a Pilot StudyLaura Cardia-Vonèche and Benoit Bastard3. From Marriage to Parenthood: Rethinking Parenthood in Times of Reproductive InnovationMalgorzata Fuszara and Jacek KurczewskiPart 2: The Conflicts Associated with Post-separation Parenting4. The Parenting Contest: Problems of Ongoing Conflict over ChildrenVanessa May and Carol Smart5. Dangerous Dads and Malicious Mothers: The Relevance of Gender to Contact DisputesLiz Trinder6. Legal Discourse and Gender Neutrality in Child Custody Reform in SpainAgurtzane Goriena LekuePart 3: Professional Intervention7. Enabling Contact: The Involvement of Psycho-social Professionals in Supporting Contact in Germany Katrin Mueller-Johnson8. The Changing Face of Contact in AustraliaHelen Rhoades9. Moving On: The Challenge for Children’s Contact Services in AustraliaGrania Sheehan, John Dewar and Rachel Carson10. Children’s Contact Services in Australia: The Referral ProcessBelinda Fehlberg and Rosemary Hunter11. Intervening in Litigated Contact: Ideas from Other JurisdictionsJoan Hunt...