ABSTRACT This paper explores 68 Australian children and young people’s understandings of what ‘home’ means for them after their parents’ separation. Home – a familiar yet complex concept of great personal and social significance – has been a research focus for many other disciplines but not family law. We found that home, as an idea and lived experience, was complex. Children and young people’s descriptions of home conveyed an interaction of tangible and intangible dimensions. Home was rarely defined by children and young people solely in terms of a physical residence; rather it was a fundamentally relational idea and experience, largely created through everyday interactions with significant others. Our study suggests that home is not simply the outcome of conforming to a defined list of ‘good’ post-separation parenting practices, or dependent on the amount of time spent at each parent’s residence: it has an existential significance for children and young people that matters deeply to them.

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分离后儿童和青少年之家的意义

摘要 本文探讨了 68 名澳大利亚儿童和年轻人对父母离异后“家”对他们意味着什么的理解。家庭——一个熟悉但复杂的概念，具有重要的个人和社会意义——一直是许多其他学科的研究重点，但不是家庭法。我们发现，作为一种理念和生活体验，家是复杂的。儿童和年轻人对家的描述传达了有形和无形维度的相互作用。儿童和年轻人很少仅根据实际居住地来定义家；相反，它是一种基本相关的想法和体验，主要是通过与重要他人的日常互动而创造的。我们的研究表明，家庭不仅仅是遵守一份明确的分居后“良好”养育做法清单的结果，