This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared
physical custody thereby providing legal psychological family sociological and demographical
insights. It describes how despite the long evolution of broken families only the last decade
has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the
gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or
cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical
custody legal frames regulating custody arrangements stability and changes in arrangements
across the life course of children socio-economic psychological social well-being of various
family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an
interdisciplinary collaboration it is interesting read for social scientists in demography
sociology psychology law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody
arrangements.
