1. Negotiating concerns in high conflict divorce families
Kari Sjøhelle Jevne, Assistant professor
Oslo and Akershus University College
30.October 2014

2. 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?
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. 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
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7. 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
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