Parenting after Partnering

Introduction: Conflicted Contact between Parents and Children after Separation1
Mavis Maclean

Part 1: The Changing Landscape of Relationships

1. Improving the Quality of Parent-child Contact in Separating Families
Michael E Lamb

2. Why Some Children see their Father and Others do not; Questions Arising from a Pilot Study
Laura Cardia-Vonèche and Benoit Bastard

3. From Marriage to Parenthood: Rethinking Parenthood in Times of Reproductive Innovation
Malgorzata Fuszara and Jacek Kurczewski

Part 2: The Conflicts Associated with Post-separation Parenting

4. The Parenting Contest: Problems of Ongoing Conflict over Children
Vanessa May and Carol Smart

5. Dangerous Dads and Malicious Mothers: The Relevance of Gender to Contact Disputes
Liz Trinder

6. Legal Discourse and Gender Neutrality in Child Custody Reform in Spain
Agurtzane Goriena Lekue

Part 3: Professional Intervention

7. Enabling Contact: The Involvement of Psycho-social Professionals in Supporting Contact in Germany
Katrin Mueller-Johnson

8. The Changing Face of Contact in Australia
Helen Rhoades

9. Moving On: The Challenge for Children's Contact Services in Australia
Grania Sheehan, John Dewar and Rachel Carson

10. Children's Contact Services in Australia: The Referral Process
Belinda Fehlberg and Rosemary Hunter

11. Intervening in Litigated Contact: Ideas from Other Jurisdictions
Joan Hunt