Table of Contents

Ulrike Zartler, Valerie Heintz-Martin and Oliver Arranz BeckerForeword ... 5Ulrike Zartler, Valerie Heintz-Martin and Oliver Arranz BeckerFamily dynamics after separation from a life course perspective:Conceptual foundations ... 9Children and parents in post-divorce familiesMatthijs Kalmijn and Jaap DronkersLean on me? The influence of parental separation and divorceon children's support networks in four European countries ... 21Oliver Arranz Becker, Nadia Lois and Veronika SalzburgerIntergenerational contact between parents and adult (step)children:The role of biological descent and co-residence patterns ... 43Valerie Heintz-Martin, Christine Entleitner-Phleps and Alexandra N. Langmeyer"Doing (step)family": Family life in (step)families in Germany ... 65Michael Feldhaus, Mandy Boehnke and Franziska KrohnChildhood family transitions and their impact on family living arrangementsin later life ... 83Annie Gagne, Sophie-Claire Valiquette-Tessier, Marie-Pier Vandetteand Julie GosselinReflecting on the co-parenting experience of couples livingin established stepfamilies: A phenomenological inquiry ... 101 8 Table of ContentRakel Berman(Re)doing parent-child relationships in dual residence arrangements:Swedish children's narratives about changing relations post-separation ... 123Union trajectories after separationInge Pasteels and Dimitri MortelmansDyadic analysis of repartnering after divorce.Do children matter? ... 143Katya Ivanova and Katia BegallThe second time around: Educational attainment and repartnering inthe Russian Federation and Estonia ... 165Lindsay Theunis, Inge Pasteels and Jan Van BavelEducational assortative mating after divorce:Persistence or divergence from first marriages? ... 183Legal and methodological issuesNina DethloffFrom separation to stepfamily.A legal perspective ... 205Ulrike Zartler and Jana HierzerEfforts to cut the Gordian knot. A sociological analysisregarding legal aspects of post-divorce parental responsibility ... 219Katharina Boele-WoelkiCombined comparative research in the field of family relations:Some reflections from the legal perspective ... 239Celine Le Bourdais and Evelyne Lapierre-AdamcykWho is in, who is out of (step)families?The impact of respondents' gender and residential status ... 257Biographical sketches of the contributors ... 281

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Zartler is Assistant Professor of Family Sociology in the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria. Valerie Heintz-Martin is a Ph.D. at German Youth Institute (DJI), Munich, Germany. Prof. Dr. Oliver Arránz Becker is a Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.