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pro zájemce přidávám citaci z jedné meta-analýzy:
Joan B. Kelly: Children’s Living Arrangements Following Separation and Divorce: Insights From Empirical and Clinical Research. Family Process, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2006


More than half of college students who experienced their parents’ divorces an average of 11 years earlier indicated that they wanted more time with their fathers, and less than 10% in any timeshare category wanted to see their fathers less. Closeness to fathers increased incrementally with incremental increases in time with fathers (Fabricius, 2003), as did college financial support (Fabricius, Braver, & Deneau,2003). Seventy percent of these young adults indicated that equal timesharing arrangements would have been the best possible situation. Among those who lived in shared physical custody, 93% expressed satisfaction and believed that the arrangement was the best for them (Fabricius). Another study of college students who had lived in shared physical custody reported fewer feelings of loss and were less likely to view their lives through a lens of divorce, compared with those in sole physical custody arrangements (Laumann-Billings & Emery, 2000).

A meta-analysis of 33 studies comparing joint physical and sole maternal custody from court, convenience, and school-based samples indicated that children in joint physical custody arrangements were better adjusted across multiple measures of general, behavioral, and emotional adjustment, self-esteem, family relations, and divorce-specific adjustment. Regardless of whether the ratings were provided bymothers, fathers, teachers, clinicians, or the children themselves, joint custody children were better adjusted than sole maternal custody children. Although joint custody parents reported less past and current conflict compared with sole custody parents, conflict was not a predictor of the joint
custody advantage in child adjustment (Bauserman, 2002). Two other studies similarly found joint physical custody to be more beneficial to children and adolescents than sole maternal custody along multiple dimensions when conflict was low, but these benefits were suppressed by high levels of conflict (Lee, 2002; Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992).
Overall, the empirical literature demonstrates numerous benefits to children, including better psychological and behavioral adjustment and academic achievement, when their living arrangements enable supportive and loving fathers to be actively involved in their children’s lives on a weekly and regular basis, including a combination of overnights and school-related and leisure time. Further, the vast majority of children want more contact with their nonresidential parent than is typically decided
between parents or by courts, and many favor the concept of shared physical custody. Those children and adolescents who have lived in shared physical custody arrangements are generally satisfied, feel loved, report less feelings of loss, and do not frame their lives through the lens of parental divorce, compared with those who lived in sole custody of their mothers.