This is a rolling digest of the latest research related to equal parenting. It will include studies related to family law, custody schedules, parenting alienation, intimate partner violence and more.
1. A 2023 meta-analysis of thirty-nine studies published between 2010 and 2022, with a sample size of 1.5 million, controlling for income and the presence of stepparents, found that shared parenting was nearly as beneficial to children as being raised by married, cohabiting parents. “Systematic review and theoretical comparison of children’s outcomes in post-separation living arrangements.” University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
2. Child outcomes improve the closer to 50/50 the schedule is. Source: “Father-Child Relationships: The Missing Link between Parenting Time and Children’s Mental and Physical Health in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court.” William Fabricius et al. More from Dr. Fabricius:
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