20th Conference of the European Divorce Network

October 13-15 2022 | Brno | Czech Republic

Program

This is the final version of the conference program uploaded on October 5, 2022.

 

Thursday, October 13

REGISTRATION

8:30 - 9:00

OPENING SESSION

9:00 - 9:30

SESSION 1

9:30 - 11:00

Chair: Maike van Damme

Economic and Contextual Causes of Divorce

Willem R. J. Vermeulen, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan, Niels Kooiman, Aart C. Liefbroer

Dissolving Unions: Effects of Financial Resources of Couples and their Social Networks

Linus Andersson, Caroline Uggla, Jan Saarela

The Short Term Effect of Unilateral No-Fault Divorce Law on High and Low Divorce-Prone Populations in Finland

Martin Kreidl, Barbora Hubatková

Changes in Relationship Quality under COVID

Isabella Buber-Ennser, Caroline Berghammer, Maria Winkler-Dworak

Is the COVID-19 Pandemic a Driver of Partnership Dissolution? A Comparative Study of Austria, France and Czechia

   

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:15

   

SESSION 2

11:15 - 12:45

Chair: Martin Kreidl

Consequences of Divorce for Adults 1

Maike van Damme, Jeroen Spijker

The Impact of Union Dissolution on Providing and Receiving Care in Mid-life in Europe

Esther Kluwer

Divorce as Loss: Towards a Better Understanding of Post-Divorce Conflict

Marco Tosi

Marital Break-Up, Relationship Quality and Mental Health: Revising the Crisis and Chronic Strain Hypotheses

Anneli Miettinen, Miia Saarikallio-Torp, Mia Hakovirta

Children’s Post-Separation Residence Arrangements and Parental Well-Being

   

LUNCH BREAK

12:45 - 14:15

   

SESSION 3

14:15 - 15:30

Chair: Zuzana Žilinčíková

Consequences of Divorce for Children

Kimberly Jacobs, Elke Claessens, Dimitri Mortelmans, Sarah Van de Velde

(Not) Again: A (Second) Parental Dissolution Versus the Mental Health of Emerging Adults

Elke Claessens , Dimitri Mortelmans

They’re (Not) Staying Put: Child Custody Enforcement in Belgium

Solaz Anne, Carole Bonnet, Claire Vandendriesche

Once, Multi or Forever Poor: The Dynamics of Child Living Conditions around Parental Separation and Family Recomposition

   

POSTER SESSION 1

15:30 - 16:45

   

SPECIAL SESSION

16:45 - 18:15

Moderators: Juho Härkönen,

Martin Kreidl

20 YEARS OF THE DIVORCE CONFERENCE/DIVORCE NETWORK - REVIEW AND DISCUSSION SESSION

Friday, October 14

SESSION 4

9:00 - 10:30

Chair: Isabella Buber-Ennser

Post-Divorce Family Arrangements - Family Characteristics

Juho Härkönen, Michael Gähler, Linus Andersson

The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden: Cohort and Period Trends

Zuzana Zilincikova, Gabriela Caceres Ojeda Freitas, Christine Schnor

Stability in Distance to the Non-Resident Parent in the 10 Years after Parental Separation. Evidence from Belgian Register Data

Tonje Holt, Mai Heide Ottosen, Karen Margrethe Vendelboe Dahl, Maria Morbech, Maren Sand Helland

Characteristics of Families Chosing Different Time-Sharing Arrangements when Parents Live Apart – Change Over Time in Two Scandinavian Countries

Štěpánka Lehmann

Decision-Making on Post-Separation Child Custody – Preferences and Experience of Parents

   

COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 10:45

   

SESSION 5

10:45 - 12:15

Chair: Juho Härkönen

Causes of Divorce - Lifepath Dynamics

Peter Öberg, Torbjörn Bildtgård

Atttributed Reasons for Late Life Divorce – A Swedish Study

Yu-Chin Her, Jorik Vergauwen, Dimitri Mortelmans

Sibling transmission of relationship dissolution in Belgium: Exploring the role of economic well-being

Dominika Sladká

Who Decides on Marriage? The Role of Partners’ Intentions in Relationship Progression

Linda Kridahl, Jani Turunen, Ann-Zofie Duvander

Do My and Your Children Matter? A Study of Divorce and Separation Risk Among Older Swedish Couples with Focus on the Influence of Common and Stepchildren

   

LUNCH BREAK

12:15 - 13:30

   

SESSION 6

13:30 - 15:00

Chair: Dominika Sladká

Consequences of Divorce for Adults 2

Gert Thielemans, Elke Claessens

Left to Fend for Themselves? How Has The 2008 Change in German Alimony Law Impacted the Economic Consequences of Divorce

Sarah Schmauk

Pathways to Retirement: The Consequences ofDdivorce in West Germany

Joan Damiens

The Impact of Residential Mobility in a Context of Union Dissolution on the Mortality by Suicide in Belgium

Vera de Bel, Marijtje van Duijn

Multi-Functional Ties and Well-Being in Divorced and Non-Divorced Family Networks

   

POSTER SESSION 2

15:00 - 16:30

   

KEYNOTE SPEECH

16:30 - 18:00

Eric Widmer

Early Trajectories of Family Formation and Coparenting in Mid-Life: A Comparison of First-Time and Post-Divorce Families (abstract)

   

CONFERENCE DINNER

19:30

Saturday, October 15

SESSION 7

9:30 - 11:00

Chair: Anja Steinbach

Post-Divorce Family Arrangements - Family Networks

Ece Arat, Marieke Voorpostel, Laura Bernardi

Interdependency of Relationships in Stepfamilies – Variation across Children’s Residence Arrangements

Mari Haapanen, Trisha Chanda, Anneli Miettinen, Quentin Riser, Judith Bartfeld, Mia Hakovirta, Daniel Meyer

Children’s Living Arrangements and Mothers’ Economic Well-Being Post-Separation in Finland and the United States

Maaike Hornstra, Katya Ivanova

Kinkeeping after Divorce and Remarriage: The Central Role of (Step)Mothers in Facilitating Adult Intergenerational Closeness

Stefania Molina, Michaela Kreyenfeld and Julie O'Sullivan

Union Dissolution and Mental Health: The Role of Partnership Quality and Conflict During Separation

   

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:15

   

SESSION 8

11:15 - 12:45

Chair: Petr Fučík

Post-Divorce Family Arrangements - Children's Perception

Anja Steinbach

Coparenting as a Mediator Between Physical Custody Arrangements in Post-Separation Families and Children’s Mental Health

Raffaele Guetto, Elena Pirani

Family Structure and Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being: Evidence across Regions and Time in Italy

Ulrike Zartler, Viktoria Parisot, Sabine Harter

‘It Has to Be Fair for Everybody’ – Children’s Constructions of Post-Divorce Fairness

Eva-Lisa Palmtag

Whom to Turn to? The Influence of Living Arrangements and Parental Monitoring on Children’s Perceived Parental Support

   

END OF CONFERENCE, FAREWELL

12:45-13:00

POSTER SESSION 1

Thursday, Oct. 13, 15:30-16:45

   

Dries Van Gasse, Nina Van Eekert

Institutionalism at work - Gendered differences in the perception of Work-Life Conflict in Single Parent Families

Torbjörn Bildtgård, Peter Öberg

The birth of the society of divorcees

Christian Fang, Ulrike Zartler

Adolescents’ Experiences with Ambiguity in Stepfamilies

Elena Bastianelli, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli

The reversal of the social gradient of union dissolution, also in a Catholic and familistic country

Pilinszki, Attila, Erzsébet Bata, Anna Gyetvai, Zsüli Watfa, Ildikó Danis

The relationship of coparenting after divorce with conflict frequency and conflict resolution: a cross-sectional study

Christine Schnor, Joan Damiens, Luisa Fadel, Alice Rees, Zuzana Zilincikova

Family structure and proximity to kin during childhood

Viktoria Parisot, Ulrike Zartler

My wife has no interest in me but wants to uphold the marriage only for financial reasons.’ Negotiations About Money and Fortune in Fault-Divorce Proceedings Over Time.

   

POSTER SESSION 2

Friday, Oct. 14, 15:00-16:30

   

Maria Morbech, Tonje Holt

Children in different time-sharing arrangements when parents are living apart: A longitudinal study of child wellbeing

Juho Härkönen, Zhiqiang Liu

Education, children’s sex and divorce in China

Marta Styrc

Aggregate measures of divorce intensity based on marriage cohorts. The possibilities and advantages of using marriage cohort data

Jani Turunen, Johanna Björksten, Inger Linblad

Tied to the local school - Shared physical custody and children’s residential and school mobility in Sweden

Caroline Robitaille, Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques, Élisabeth Godbout, Amandine Baude

Understanding parental separation in a multidisciplinary perspective: Longitudinal Study of Separated Parents and Stepfamilies in Quebec

Momoko Nishikido, Diederik Boertien, Mariona Lozano

Repartnering in Spain

Lea Katharina Kröger, Jonas Radl

Living in a single-parent household: does it decrease cognitive effort?

Jana Barvíková

Perception of home after parents breakup

 

Changes:

Final version:

Thursday's sessions shifted to earlier time, special review/discussion session added

several posters and one presentation cancelled

 

History:

September 05: 

Keynote speech moved to Friday afternoon

session 6 Post-Divorce Family Arrangements - Family Characteristics moved to Friday morning

sessions have been renumbered

swapped one presentation in section 2/7

minor changes in timing of sections on Friday morning

 

August 25: title of the keynote speech

 

August 16: first version uploaded

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