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On tonite’s episode of Families Divided TV 2 9 PM EDT, Linda Nielsen discusses children’s outcomes in Joint (JPC) vs. sole physical custody families. This will air exclusively on our Families Divided TV you tube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qET_H81bIcf7b55UHxhKQ
Dr. Linda Nielsen summarizes the 60 studies, available as of 2018, that compared the outcomes for children who lived 35%-50% time with each parent after their separation (shared physical custody) with children who lived primarily or solely with one parent. In the vast majority of studies, the children in the shared parenting families had better outcomes across a wide range of measures: physical health, depression, anxiety, aggression, and the quality of their relationships with peers and parents. In several studies, the outcomes were equal. In no studies were all outcomes worse for the shared parenting children. These findings held even after family income and the level of conflict between the parents were factored in to the statistical equations.
Linda Nielsen is a Professor in the Education Department at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC. She is an internationally recognized expert on father-daughter relationships and shared physical custody of children after divorce.
In addition to many academic articles, she has written three books on father-daughter relationships and a college textbook on adolescent psychology. Fathers & Daughters: Contemporary Research & Issues was chosen as one of the top ten books on fatherhood in 2019 by The Book Authority. She also blogs for Psychology Today, the Institute of Family Studies at U.Va. & The Good Men Project. She served as a consultant for the award-winning advertising campaigns: “Dads who play Barbie” and Proctor & Gamble’s Super Bowl “Dad Do’s”. For more than three decades, she has taught the only college course in the country on father-daughter relationships.
Her research on shared physical custody has had an international impact on revising custody laws to provide children with more fathering time. Her work has been cited in at least 15 family law textbooks, several State Bar Association magazines, and legislative committees in at least 20 countries and 15 states—four of which have enacted shared parenting custody bills.
Her work has appeared in many forums, including the BBC, NPR, PBS, CNN, Time, Newsweek, Oprah, Forbes, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, New York Times & the Washington Post.
Her most recent book, released in March, 2023, is Myths & Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All . More resources are available on her university website.
Website link. go.wfu.edu/nielsen
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