Lawrie Moloney's research while affiliated with Australian Institute of Family Studies and other places

... The concept may be difficult for some mothers to accept and may be experienced as a loss. Fathers on the other hand may have recently embraced the idea of sharing the parenting or see it as normal and therefore the expected outcome (see Moloney, Smyth, Richardson, & Capper, 2016). ...

... It is possible that these indicators vary substantially over time, such as during spells of unemployment triggering economic strain (Masarik & Conger, 2017) or depending on the duration since separation or divorce (Lin et al., 2019;Luhmann et al., 2012). Physical custody arrangements, such as SPC, have also shown to evolve over time because parents may re-negotiate and alter schedules of children's commutes between their residences depending on their experiences and needs (Poortman & van Gaalen, 2017;Smyth & Moloney, 2008). These issues highlight the need for-so far sparse-targeted and fine-grained longitudinal data to track temporal dynamics in SPC and other physical custody arrangements upon union dissolution, and its associations with parental well-being. ...

... It is then, relatively standard for these kinds of longitudinal studies to consider and measure a range of life events labels representing change and upheaval, that could broadly be labelled as 'negative'. These include forms multiple examples of injuries and accidents, death and adjacent experiences, drought as well as disasters, various forms of victimisation, experiences of violence, the impacts of addiction, and impacts of incarceration (see Baxter et al. 2012;Qu et al., 2012;Moloney et al., 2012), as well as the design and implementation of life event scales that represent the experience of First Nations peoples (Kowal et al., 2007;Stevens and Paradies, 2008;Askew et al., 2013;Young et al., 2018). ...

... This arrangement can be stressful and has been linked to decreased child well-being, as it can exacerbate social, emotional, psychological and physical health issues associated with parental separation (Gilmore, 2006;Fehlberg et al., 2011;Baude et al., 2016;Smyth et al., 2016;Boertien et al., 2017;Lehtme & Toros, 2019). Children's needs are often overlooked during divorce, as the focus tends to be on the equal rights of the parents (Mason, 2002;Jensen, 2009;Harris-Short, 2010;Haugen, 2010;Kaspiew et al., 2011). Parents also worry about the negative consequences of divorce and unstable custody arrangements (Smyth et al., 2003;McIntosh et al., 2011;Hurwitz, 2016). ...

... In terms of the resources required to meet the spike in demand, it is useful to briefly review what we have learned in Australia about post-separation parental relationships and about the main pathways used to make post separation parenting decisions. Though COVID-19 has created raised levels of anxiety, sometimes in the face of parenting and economic issues that have not been faced before, a plausible working assumption based on earlier data (see Kaspiew et al., 2010) is that positive family dynamics will continue to assist separated parents and children whereas negative or dysfunctional dynamics will be associated with the need for more intensive facilitation, advice, specialized referral or adjudication. Table 1 below summarizes relatively recent post separation data gathered over a six-year period on parents' own reports of the quality of their relationships with former partners at discreet times after separation. ...

... The Swedish frequency of JPC is high in comparison with other countries [4], but the practice is also increasing in other Western countries. It now accounts for about 16 per cent of the children with separated parents in Australia [6], nine to 15 per cent in Canada [7], nine to 17 per cent in the UK [3] and around 20 per cent in the USA, Denmark and The Netherlands [8][9][10]. ...

... Children's care time arrangements varied systematically according to their age. Using the LSSF w1 data, Weston et al., (2011) reported that shared time was more common for children of primary school age than for other children of younger and older ages. Children under three years of age were more likely than older children to have daytime only with their father. ...

... ParentCorps is a multi-component school-based preventive intervention that promotes early childhood mental health and development; it was built on an extensive body of cross-cultural parenting and child development research [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. ParentCorps includes two components to support teachers and families to create environments that are safe, nurturing, and predictable for children: ...

... The evidence for this comes from a number of studies of cross generational relationships (for example Werner, Buchbinder, Lowenstein, & Livni, 2005) and of divorced parents, where the literature agrees that maternal grandparents are more likely to maintain contact with their grandchildren than paternal grandparents (Centre for Community Child Health, 2010; Deblaquiere, Moloney, & Weston, 2012;Doyle, O'Dywer, & Timonen, 2010;Families Australia, 2007;Qu et al., 2011;Soliz, 2008). Where the father is non-resident he is less likely to have contact with his children, and his parents are even less likely to be able to maintain contact with their grandchildren (Ochiltree, 2006). ...

... Although not all parents who engage with the DVO court process will also have a FLO, the consideration of the role of children is important because mutual children keep many aggrieved and respondent parents connected post separation (Dowling et al., 2018;Logan & Walker, 2009;Reeves, 2020;Thiara & Humphreys, 2017). Between 93 and 97% of fathers in nationally representative parent samples (Kaspiew et al., 2015) and 80% of fathers in a DV specific study sample (Humphreys et al., 2019) reported ongoing contact with children post separation from the aggrieved parent, potentially exposing the aggrieved and children to more violence (Hays et al., 2021). Despite this continued contact, and research acknowledging how contradictions between DVOs and FLOs create issues for aggrieved parents, particularly mothers (Douglas, 2018), there is a paucity of research on how DVO court proceedings deal with the complexities around child contact, custody and parental responsibilities. ...