Parenting after Partnering

Mavis Maclean is co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford University.

• Introduction: Conflicted Contact between Parents and Children after Separation1Mavis MacleanPart 1: The Changing Landscape of Relationships1. Improving the Quality of Parent–child Contact in Separating FamiliesMichael E Lamb2. Why Some Children see their Father and Others do not; Questions Arising from a Pilot StudyLaura Cardia-Vonèche and Benoit Bastard3. From Marriage to Parenthood: Rethinking Parenthood in Times of Reproductive InnovationMalgorzata Fuszara and Jacek KurczewskiPart 2: The Conflicts Associated with Post-separation Parenting4. The Parenting Contest: Problems of Ongoing Conflict over ChildrenVanessa May and Carol Smart5. Dangerous Dads and Malicious Mothers: The Relevance of Gender to Contact DisputesLiz Trinder6. Legal Discourse and Gender Neutrality in Child Custody Reform in SpainAgurtzane Goriena LekuePart 3: Professional Intervention7. Enabling Contact: The Involvement of Psycho-social Professionals in Supporting Contact in Germany Katrin Mueller-Johnson8. The Changing Face of Contact in AustraliaHelen Rhoades9. Moving On: The Challenge for Children’s Contact Services in AustraliaGrania Sheehan, John Dewar and Rachel Carson10. Children’s Contact Services in Australia: The Referral ProcessBelinda Fehlberg and Rosemary Hunter11. Intervening in Litigated Contact: Ideas from Other JurisdictionsJoan Hunt

...The book contains important ideas and information and, as might be expected from a work edited by Mavis McLean, the writing and scholarship is generally of a high standard... Richard Chisholm Australian Journal of Family Law 22:166, 2008 This collection of articles provides a useful overview of presumptions about family within and across legal systems, data concerning people's experiences with legal systems, and reflections on the multiple challenges in governing families. Susan Sterett Law and Society Review Vol 43:1 ...useful for international audiences especially for researchers and practitioners dealing with post-separation disputes...From the viewpoint of complexity, it is important that the book also presents research on post-separation family practices from non-English speaking (European) countries...the book reveals some of the unresolved issues underlying separation interpretations, which strive to become universal. The definite value of this book is, however, not to generate the conflict, but to go beyond it. Hannele Forsberg Children and Society Vol 23, 2009 ...a thoroughly enjoyable read...provides up-to-the-minute evidence to support assumptions often made in this field...I would recommend this text principally to academics and students (both under and postgraduate) studying the socio-legal aspects of parental separation and childcare. It is, however, also likely that practitioners specialising in the field will find this text a worthwhile read. Lesley-Anne Barnes Scolag Legal Journal Issue 375, January 2009