COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?

Bryson, Caroline and McKay, Stephen (2020) COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents? CASEbriefs (CASEbrief39). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

The well-being and outcomes of children living in separated families are associated with the quality of their relationship with their non-resident parent, and child maintenance provided by that parent. It is therefore important to understand how COVID-19 has affected these. While the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey suggests a strong degree of stability in many children’s relationships with their non-resident parent, those relationships most at risk (of becoming less close or having less contact) during the pandemic are those which were of poorer quality beforehand. Child maintenance is most likely to have reduced during the pandemic where children had less contact beforehand.

Item Type:	Monograph (Report)
Official URL:	https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_new/publications/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General > I00 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J00 - General
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2024 12:18
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2024 12:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121565

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