Background

Joint physical custody is a parental care arrangement in which children live roughly an equal amount of time with each parent after family dissolution, residing alternately in each of the two parental households. Because joint physical custody is characterised by fathers’ continued involvement in their children’s lives, this care arrangement is believed to compensate for the negative effects of family dissolution, and to contribute to children’s well-being in post-separation families.

Objective

This study aims to investigate potential differences in the experiences of stress of children living in joint physical custody and sole physical custody arrangements, while considering both the proportion of time the children spend with each of their parents and the number of transitions the children make between the parental households.

Methods

Based on data from the Family Models in Germany (FAMOD) study, a national convenience sample, linear regression models were estimated for 297 children between the ages of 11 and 14.

Results

The statistical analysis suggests that there was no significant association between the physical custody type (sole physical custody vs. joint physical custody) and the children’s levels of stress. In addition, the results revealed that children’s experiences of stress did not depend on how often they moved between their parents’ households.

Conclusions

This study does not corroborate the assumption that joint physical custody has a protective effect on children, but instead suggests that different physical custody arrangements are associated with different stressors that lead to similar levels of stress in children living in different post-separation families.

中文翻译：

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儿童在共同身体监护中的压力体验

背景

共同监护是一种父母照顾安排，在这种安排中，家庭解体后，子女与父母双方的生活时间大致相等，交替居住在两个父母家庭中的每一个。由于共同身体监护的特点是父亲继续参与子女的生活，这种照顾安排被认为可以弥补家庭解体的负面影响，并有助于分居后家庭中儿童的福祉。

客观的

本研究旨在调查生活在共同监护权和单独监护权安排下的儿童在压力体验方面的潜在差异，同时考虑儿童与每个父母共度的时间比例以及儿童在两个家庭之间进行的过渡次数。父母家庭。

方法

根据德国家庭模型 (FAMOD) 研究的数据，该研究是一个全国性便利样本，对 297 名 11 至 14 岁儿童的线性回归模型进行了估计。

结果

统计分析表明，实际监护类型（单独监护与共同监护）与孩子的压力水平之间没有显着关联。此外，结果显示，儿童的压力经历并不取决于他们在父母家庭之间移动的频率。

结论

这项研究并未证实共同监护权对儿童具有保护作用的假设，而是表明不同的监护权安排与不同的压力源有关，这些压力源会导致生活在不同分居后家庭的儿童承受相似的压力。