Cultural-Normative Frameworks Shaping the Lived Experiences of Shared Custody Arrangements in Italy and Belgium

Based on in-depth, qualitative fieldwork with over 40 children aged between 10 and 16, and semi-structured interviews with at least one of their parents, this paper examines the role of children’s cultural-normative frameworks in shaping the lived experiences of shared custody arrangements in Belgium and Italy. The data presented, as well as the creative methodological design that was put into place (Schier et al 2015), comes from an ERC Starting Grant funded research project entitled MobileKids: Children in Multi-Local, Post-Separation Families (supervision, Prof. Laura Merla). The problema... Mehr ...