Gender equality, child well-being and shared residence in Spain
- Autores: Lluís Flaquer Vilardebò, Anna Escobedo Caparrós, Anna Garriga Alsina, Carmen Moreno
- Localización: VII Congrés Català de Sociologia i V Congrés Català de Joves Sociòlegs / Sociòlogues: llibre de resums de les sessions dels Grups de Treball, 2017, ISBN 978-84-8424-611-4, págs. 95-96
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper has a two-fold objective: (1) to explore the factors that are contributing to the growth of shared residence in Spain and (2) to examine the variations of child life satisfaction levels in different kinds of family arrangements with a particular focus on shared residence. In order to do so our analyses are drawing on two different databases, i.e. the Spanish Statistics of Divorces (2007-2015) and the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey for Spain 2014.
The investigation of judicial data suggests that the progress of shared residence in Spain is driven by the development of egalitarianism in divorce proceedings such as rates of mutual agreement, joint filing and payment of child maintenance by both parents resulting from the growth of gender equality. On the other hand, findings from survey analysis show that parents opting for shared residence arrangements tend to feature marked sociodemographic characteristics in terms of high educational attainment, employment rates and perceived wealth. Finally, it appears that children from shared residence arrangements display better outcomes in terms of life satisfaction than those from single parent families, but they are still very distant from intact ones.
