The International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) is an international non-profit organization that promotes and disseminates scientific research and makes recommendations on the needs and rights of children whose parents do not live together. It organizes the International Conference on Shared Parenting.
History and organization
In 2013 the organization started its work informally under the name ''International Platform on Shared Parenting''. In 2014, it was legally incorporated in Germany under the current name. The organization has a board of 13 directors, which includes the secretary general, and four members from academia, four from family professions and four from civil society. All current board members are from Europe or North America.
International conferences
Since 2014, the International Council on Shared Parenting has organized the ''International Conference on Shared Parenting'', with scientific presentations by the leading international scientists in the field of optimal post-divorce parenting arrangements. The year, venue and themes of the conferences have been:
* 2014,
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
, ''Bridging the Gap between Empirical Evidence and Socio-Legal Practice''
* 2015,
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
, ''Best Practices for Legislative and Psycho-Social Implementation''
* 2017,
Boston
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, ''Shared Parenting Research: A Watershed in Understanding Children’s Best Interest?''
* 2018,
Strasbourg
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, ''Shared Parenting, Social Justice and Children´s Rights''
* 2019,
Malaga, ''Best Interest of the Child and Shared Parenting: an Interdisciplinary Study of the Effects of its Progressive Implementation''
* 2020,
Vancouver
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, live-stream online conference, ''The intersection of shared parenting and family violence''
The conferences brings together scholars, legal and psychological practitioner and members of advocacy organizations. Prominent scientist that have presented at the conference include Drs.
Kari Adamsons,
Malin Bergström
Malin Bergström is a child psychologist and scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a specialist in studies concerning the effect on children with different child custody arrangements after divorce or separation. Usi ...
,
William Fabricius,
Edward Kruk,
Michael Lamb,
Gérard Neyrand,
Linda Nielsen
Linda Nielsen is a professor of adolescent and educational psychology in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. She has conducted research on the effects of shared parenting and on father–daughter relationships.
Early life and ...
,
Patrick Parkinson,
Irwin Sandler,
Hildegund Sünderhauf and
Richard Warshak. As one example from the 2017 conference, Malin Bergström from Sweden presented a longitudinal study of children with separated parents, with the finding that children growing up with a shared parenting plan had only half the physical and mental health problems compared to children with a primary custody arrangement.
See also
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Shared parenting
Shared parenting, shared residence, joint residence, shared custody, joint physical custody, equal parenting time (EPT) is a child custody arrangement after divorce or separation, in which both parents share the responsibility of raising their ...
References
External links
TwoHomes.org{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127005103/https://twohomes.org/en_home , date=2019-01-27
Child custody
Children's rights organizations
Family law
Gender equality
Fathers' rights movement
Social justice organizations
Advocacy groups
Organizations established in 2013