We document the dramatic decline in the United States of mother sole-custody arrangements following divorce. Our empirical analysis uses Wisconsin Court Records data spanning more than two decades (1988–2010). Updating earlier analyses that showed significant increases in shared custody, we estimate that shared custody (where children spend at least 25% of time with each parent) has now replace...

Study background: There is currently no data available regarding overall health and vulnerability factors for minors (i.e. those aged under 18) who have been placed in police custody in France. The purpose of this study was to define the sociodemographic characteristics of this population. We hypothesized that most of these teenagers can be deemed as being abused or neglected. Methods: We carri...

This research is to find out and analyze the adopted child system according Chinese customary provisions in Jambi. The approach used case approach, concrete that occurs field sociological namely legal carried practice as a determinant, test truth of science, using scientific method. purpose adoption itself help others. Likewise regarding right inherit from children there no standard provision c...

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

Sperm cryopreservation and increasingly oocyte cryopreservation are common forms of fertility preservation for oncology patients facing gonadotoxic therapy. Both procedures present challenging ethical issues with regard to informed consent, given that the context for these procedures is a disease that carries a significant risk of mortality. We argue that the current consent process does not al...

OBJECTIVES To describe and to examine predictors of making custody plans by parents living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. INTERVENTIONS The custody plans of 296 parents living with HIV for 708 children were examined over 5 years, with at least 85% reassessed annually. RESULTS Over time, increasing numbers of parents living with HIV made custody plans for all of their...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Motivation has an important influence on neuropsychological test performances. This study examined effort on the Word Memory Test (WMT) in groups with differing external incentives. RESEARCH DESIGN 774 adults with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), tested as part of a Workers' Compensation, disability or personal injury claim stood to gain financially by appearing impaired on tes...

The contested custody case has in common with any other case that it is a search for the truth through the medium of the courts. Many modern thinkers believe that the courts are not the proper arena for discovering the truth in all cases. Increasingly, there is agitation to remove areas of testimony from the courts, placing them perhaps in the hands of some commission appointed by government. S...

We consider the problem of reconciling the two commitments to hear a child and to promote a child’s best interests by identifying the principal issues at stake and illustrating them by reference to legal decision-making in the domains of health in the United Kingdom and custody and child protection in Norway. We agree that a child’s views are not authoritative but dispute Harry Brighouse’s clai...