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Children's contact after separation; factors associated with contact, changes in contact, and the parents who become non-resident
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New research from One Parent Families|Gingerbread. Vicki Peacey and Tina Haux.
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July 2007
<font class="titleid1siteid0">Contact paper [PDF, 364KB]</font>
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Abstract

The composition of families in Britain today means that an increasing proportion of children will spend some time growing up with their parents living apart. Maintaining children's contact with the parent they no longer live can be a challenge for many families.

This paper focuses on three aspects, namely, factors influencing contact, changes to contact patterns over time and the characteristics of partners in households who go on to leave the household. The data is based on analysis of longitudinal data from the Families and Children Study (2002 - 2004).

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Issues covered:

Part 1: Crosssectional analysis of children’s contact in 2004
    Contact frequency and children’s characteristics
    Contact frequency and the resident parent’s characteristics
    Contact frequency and characteristics and circumstances of nonresident parents
    Contact frequency and links between households
     Regression analysis on contact occurence and contact frequency

Part 2: Longitudinal analysis of changes to contact, and ‘transition’ analysis

Part 3: ‘Retrospective’ analysis
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Vicki Peacey is Research and Policy Officer at One Parent Families.
Tina Haux is completing a PhD at the University of Bath.

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the Nuffield Foundation for their support and making this research possible (grant number CPF/32648). We would also like to thank Nick Lyon from the National Centre for Social Research, Joan Hunt from the University of Oxford, and Susan Harkness from the University of Bath, who have made very valuable contributions to this paper.