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Stanford Child Custody Study: Family, 1984-1990
Investigators: Eleanor E. Maccoby, Robert H. Mnookin, and Charlene E. Depner
Publication Date: March 22, 2016
About This Product
The Stanford Child Custody Study (Study I) is a three wave, longitudinal study of post-separation child custody arrangements in a sample of 1,124 families who filed for divorce in two California counties. All parents filed for divorce in either San Mateo or Santa Clara Counties between September 1984 and April 1985, and all had at least one child under the age of 16 at the outset of the study. Three separate telephone interviews were conducted with parents over a three-year period. Additional information was drawn from court records to determine the sequence of legal events and their relationship to the day-to-day lives of families. The study's longitudinal design serves to clarify several basic processes associated with divorce, including: 1) the evolution and maintenance of residence and visitation arrangements; 2) the legal process leading to settlement; 3) the degree of conflict and cooperation between divorced parents; 4) disengagement or continued involvement of the non-custodial parent; 5) compliance with legal and informal agreements; 6) family reorganization; and 7) remarriage.
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The Stanford Child Custody Study focuses on four central areas of inquiry:
- 2,459 variables
- 1,124 subjects
- Raw Data, SPSS and SAS Program Statements, SPSS Portable File, and Instruments
- User’s Guide to the Machine-Readable Files