Table Of ContentLife Course Research and Social Policies 12
Michaela Kreyenfeld
Heike Trappe Editors
Parental Life
Courses after
Separation and
Divorce in Europe
Life Course Research and Social Policies
Volume 12
Series Editors
Laura Bernardi, Rostock, Germany
Dario Spini, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
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Michaela Kreyenfeld • Heike Trappe
Editors
Parental Life Courses after
Separation and Divorce in
Europe
Editors
Michaela Kreyenfeld Heike Trappe
Hertie School Institut für Soziologie und Demographie
Berlin, Berlin, Germany Universität Rostock
Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Germany
ISSN 2211-7776 ISSN 2211-7784 (electronic)
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Preface
This book is the result of an international workshop, held in Berlin on 3–4 May
2018, on the topic of “Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce”. The
workshop brought together scholars from several European countries to present and
discuss their research findings on the consequences of separation and divorce for
parents’ life courses. Publishing a book is never the work of the editors alone. There
are many people who encouraged, helped, and supported us. Thanks go to the
German Science Foundation (under Grant Number 266395921) for financing the
abovementioned workshop and to the Hertie School of Governance for hosting and
promoting the workshop. It was Bernadette Deelen-Mans from Springer Nature
who pushed the idea of bringing the contributions of the workshop together in an
edited volume. Thanks also go to Alexander James from Springer Nature who sup-
ported us in the process of producing this book. This book is made available as an
open-access publication. We thank the University of Rostock and the Hertie School
for their financial support of the open-access costs. Before the final book was passed
to Springer Nature, a lot of hard work went into formatting and editing the texts,
figures, references, and tables. We thank Annika Krömer who greatly supported us
in this work. Particular thanks go to Miriam Hils who has worked with us many
times before. Again, she has been a great support in the language editing and proof-
reading of the book. Last but not least, we thank the dedicated and disciplined
authors of this volume. Without their excellent time management and responsive-
ness, this book would have never been finalised so quickly while still meeting high-
quality standards.
Berlin, Germany Michaela Kreyenfeld
Rostock, Germany Heike Trappe
August 2019
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Contents
Part I E conomic Conditions of Divorce and Separation
1 Introduction: Parental Life Courses After Separation
and Divorce in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Michaela Kreyenfeld and Heike Trappe
2 Economic Consequences of Divorce: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Dimitri Mortelmans
3 Earnings Trajectories Following Parental Separation
Among First-Time Parents in Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anna-Karin Nylin
4 Changes in Mothers’ Earnings Around the Time of Divorce . . . . . . . 65
Anke Radenacker
5 Parents Returning to Parents: Does Migration Background
Have an Influence on the “Boomerang Effect”
Among Parents After Divorce? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Dimitri Mortelmans, Gert Thielemans, and Layla Van den Berg
Part II P arent-Child Relationships
6 Will Separations Lead to More or Less Gender-Equal
Parenthood? Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parental Leave
Use in Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Ann-Zofie Duvander and Nicklas Korsell
7 Divorce, Emotions, and Legal Regulations:
Shared Parenting in a Climate of Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Elena Moore
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8 The Consequences of Separation for Mothers’
Perception of Their Parenting Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Tina Haux and Lucinda Platt
9 The Role of Gatekeeping in Non-Resident Fathers’
Contact with Their Children: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Views . . . . . . . 169
Sabine Walper, Stefanie Amberg, Carolin Thönnissen,
and Sharon L. Christ
Part III Parent and Child Well-Being
10 Loneliness in Children Adapting to Dual Family Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Inge Pasteels and Kim Bastaits
11 Paternal Psychological Well-being After Union Dissolution:
Does Involved Fatherhood Have a Protective Effect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Aušra Maslauskaitė and Anja Steinbach
12 Gender Differences in Parental Well-being After Separation:
Does Shared Parenting Matter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Katja Köppen, Michaela Kreyenfeld, and Heike Trappe
Part IV H ealth-Related Consequences of Divorce and Separation
13 Heterogeneous Effects of Family Complexity in Childhood
on Mental Health: Testing the “Good Divorce”
and the “Good Stepparent” Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Katya Ivanova and Matthijs Kalmijn
14 Work Disability and Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Daniel Brüggmann
Contributors
Stefanie Amberg Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany
Kim Bastaits PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hasselt, Belgium
Daniel Brüggmann Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Sharon L. Christ Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Ann-Zofie Duvander Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Tina Haux University of Kent, Kent, UK
Katya Ivanova Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, Tilburg,
The Netherlands
Matthijs Kalmijn Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Den
Haag, The Netherlands
Katja Köppen University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Nicklas Korsell Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate, Stockholm, Sweden
Michaela Kreyenfeld Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Aušra Maslauskaitė Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Elena Moore University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Dimitri Mortelmans University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Anna-Karin Nylin Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Inge Pasteels PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hasselt, Belgium
Lucinda Platt London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Anke Radenacker Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Anja Steinbach Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Duisburg, Germany
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Gert Thielemans University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Carolin Thönnissen Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany
Heike Trappe Institut für Soziologie und Demographie, Universität Rostock,
Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Layla Van den Berg University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Sabine Walper German Youth Institute and Ludwig-Maximilians-University
(LMU), Munich, Germany
