Negotiating concerns in high conflict divorce families Kari Sjøhelle Jevne, Assistant professor Oslo and Akershus University College 30.October 2014
Topic parents who have conflicts concerning contact or residence where concerns of inadequate care are part of the conflict How can concerns of abuse or neglect in the context of custodial cases be understood? Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Empirical starting point Qualitative research: interviews Informants: 15 parents: 7 mothers, 8 fathers 26 social workers (case workers in the child welfare service) 3 children Recruitement criteria: lived in different households - because of divorce (11) or never lived together (4). ongoing or recent disagreements about the child’s residence or contact investigated by the child welfare service during the custodial disagreements Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Theoretical perspectives: shared care Exploring custodial conflicts as challenges in sharing care for the child The children move between the parents’ households Sharing care between locations of care: chain of care (Andenæs, 2011) Mothers and fathers sharing care Parents sharing care across households Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Co-parental involvement across households Concerned parents: Monitor quality of care By interpreting signs of care By seeking information Strengthen quality of care By strengthening quality in the other household By increasing their own time with adequate care Continous responsibility How do they try to take a continouse responsibility Why do they try to take a continuous responsibility How do they seek parental autonomy? Why do they seek parental autonomy? What are they trying to achieve: Both: being positioned as a normal/good parent. Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Co-parental involvement across households: Accused parents Redefining accusations and involvement Stressing their adequacy Turning the problem: Overprotective or hostile parents Resisting intrusive involvement Resisting supervision and guidence Fighting for contact Parental autonomy Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Summing up the parents’ struggles to deal with involvements across households inflames the conflicts and influence each parent’s possibility to support their child’s development Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018
Presentasjonens tittel 22.11.2018