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Meta Brown; Christopher J. Flinn – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2007
Policies governing divorce and parenting, such as child support orders and enforcement, child custody regulations, and marital dissolution requirements, can have a large impact on the welfare of parents and children. Recent research has produced evidence on the responses of divorce rates to unilateral divorce laws and child support enforcement. In…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Divorce, Public Policy, Marital Status
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Faller, Kathleen Coulborn; DeVoe, Ellen – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1995
Examines a clinical sample of 215 cases of allegations of sexual abuse in families involved in divorce. Cases are categorized according to the circumstances surrounding abuse allegations, clinical substantiation, and legal outcomes. Court substantiation rate is about half the clinic substantiation rate. Nearly one-fifth of parents raising concerns…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Custody, Children, Counseling