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Abstract Interviews with 41 divorced parents who have court-awarded joint custody reveal several characteristics of shared parenting arrangements. Although some parents divided parenting responsibilities fairly equally, most exhibited a varietv of shared parenting patterns, with differential involvement of the nonresidential parents. The majority (86%)of the sample reported satisfaction with their joint custody arrangements, although nonresidential parents reported a greater number of specific dissatisfactions than did residential parents. Findings reveal joint custody to be a viable option for some divorced parents: in sharp contrast to the assumptions of Goldstein, Freud, and Solnit (1973), these divorced spouses can continue to share parenting even though they have terminated a marital relationship.
Constance R. Ahrons (Wed,) studied this question.