Remain, leave, or return? Mothers’ location continuity after separation in Belgium

BACKGROUND Partnership dissolution can mark an extended period of residential instability formothers and their children. Location continuity, i.e., the ability to stay in or return to thesame neighbourhood after separation, is essential to reduce the negative consequencesof separation. OBJECTIVE We focus on mothers’ post-separation location continuity in the three years followingseparation and study the role of socioeconomic resources and local ties (to a home,neighbourhood, and region) in remaining in or returning to their pre-separationneighbourhood. METHODS Using linked Belgian Census (20... Mehr ...