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Children’s needs, outcomes and interventions

This research examines the impact of ongoing parental conflict on children and explores interventions that can support children's needs. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration between parents, quality of parenting, and the child's feelings of closeness. The study also highlights the patterns of contact and conflict in different types of families and identifies gaps in existing policies and services.

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Children’s needs, outcomes and interventions

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  1. Children’s needs, outcomes and interventions Liz Trinder, University of East Anglia

  2. What works for children: low or managed conflict • Very strong evidence that ongoing conflict between separated parents is damaging to children, more so than the separation itself • Collaboration between parents associated with better child adjustment

  3. What works for children: resident parent • quality of parenting provided by the resident parent • quality of the relationship between the resident parent and child

  4. What works for children: non-resident parent • Child’s feelings of closeness • Authoritative parenting

  5. What works for children: contact quantity • Not clearly related to well-being • But closeness/quality requires ‘sufficient’ contact

  6. Patterns of contact and conflict Contact not exercised: • 1/5 to 1/3 Conflicted: • 9-13% court orders • 5-6% solicitors or mediation • * Source ONS Omnibus Survey 2003 Informal agreed: 50-60%* Conflicted: 14-19% CNE: 20-30%

  7. Is policy supporting children’s needs? Privately ordered families • More contact, higher satisfaction, more communication, lower conflict, less child and adult distress • Selection effect • More opt-in support services for parents and children required

  8. Is policy supporting children’s needs? Court families • Focus on individual children’s needs being drowned by adult voices • Limits to law – decision insufficient, relationship work required • Family resolutions and ‘contact activities’ potentially helpful if well-resourced • Specialist high conflict programmes required

  9. The main gaps • Engaging non-resident parents not having contact • Supporting the capacity of both parents to: • focus on the needs of the child/authoritative parenting • collaborate and manage each other • Services to manage contact involving risk

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