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OTHER REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Family and Juvenile Law - Child Custody

Custody for Children Five Years of Age and Younger: Report to Parents (September 1996, PDF, 77 KB)
Report to help parents understand what young children need from their divorced or separated parents.

The Impact of the Custody Plan on the Family: A Five-Year Follow-up: Executive Summary (May 1991, PDF, 28 KB)
Drawing on court files and interview data from a sample of families who came to the Los Angeles Conciliation Court in 1983 with a custody dispute, this research study provides information on the initial custody orders filed at the time of the divorce, the custody behaviors within the families six years after the dissolution was filed, and the relationship between the order and the behavior.

An Integrative Review of the Literature Pertinent to Custody for Children Five Years of Age and Younger: Executive Summary (September 1996, PDF, 205 KB)
Summarizes the extant knowledge concerning the developmental consequences of post-divorce custody arrangements for young children. Also based on interviews with court personnel, research of scholarly and professional literature, and a meta-analysis of 12 studies reported in that literature.


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