Rakel Berman
About Rakel Berman
Professional background Previous to my doctoral studies I have been working as a social worker. My professional focus has been mainly on social work practice with adolescents and their families.
Research interests
- Dual residence / shared residence / joint physical custody
- Post-divorce childhood and the post-separation care of children
- Family practices
- Children and childhood
- Families and relationships
- Changing family forms
PhD project Children’s Experiences of Dual Residence in Sweden
Dual-residence arrangements, where children split their time equally between their divorced or separated parents, have increased in many western countries in recent times. This study explores Swedish co-parented children’s narratives about their residential arrangements and dual-residence practices. The aim is to explore these children’s day-to-day experiences of sharing their time between two households. It focuses on how the children actively participate in the process of shaping family life and their own childhoods in the context of family change. How do they frame their family life, their leisure and their friendships while belonging to two families and moving between two households? How do they take part in decision making related to their living arrangement?
The study is based on qualitative in-depth interviews with about 20 co-parented children aged nine to eighteen. The starting point is a perspective where children are seen as social actors, involved in interactions, negotiations and the construction of their social worlds. The theoretical framework is based on childhood sociology, as well as the theoretical concepts of participation, family practices and doing family.
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Children in dual-residence arrangements: a literature
review
Rakel Berman, Kristian Daneback
Journal of Family Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Children in Motion: Everyday Life Across
Two Homes
Rakel Berman
Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing Through Space and Time - 2019-01-01 -
Barns röster om växelvis boende. Vardagsliv, familjepraktiker och nära
relationer
Rakel Berman
- 2019-01-01 -
Children's influence on dual residence arrangements: Exploring decision-making
practices
Rakel Berman
Children and youth services review - 2018-01-01 -
(Re)doing parent-child relationships in dual residence arrangements: Swedish children’s narratives about changing relations
post-separation
Rakel Berman
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung - Journal of Family Research - 2015-01-01 -
Swedish children’s narratives about growing up in shared
residence
Rakel Berman
International Conference on Shared Parenting , 9-11 July 2014, Bonn, Germany - 2014-01-01 -
Children’s narratives about growing up in shared residence: participation, negotiation and
care
Rakel Berman
The 11th conference of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce - 2013-01-01 -
Children's voices about shared residence: New demands in everyday
life
Rakel Berman
Life-Course Transitions after Separation, Berlin 4-5 juli 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Children's Experiences of Joint Physical Custody: the Swedish
Case
Rakel Berman
CFR seminar 'New Family Forms Following Family Dissolution: Consequences in/on Postmodern Society'. 12-14 september 2012, Leuven, Belgien. - 2012-01-01 -
Shared Residence in Sweden; Children’s Experiences of Sharing their Time between two
Households
Rakel Berman
The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth 4th International Conference: “Celebrating Childhood Diversity” . 9-11 juli 2012, Sheffield, England - 2012-01-01 -
Får jag vara med och bestämma? Om växelvis boende och barns
delaktighet
Rakel Berman
Barnkonventionen på riktigt. Tema-konferens om barnkonventionen, Nätverket barnkonventionen, Göteborg den 20/11 2012. - 2012-01-01 -
Barns och ungas erfarenheter av att bo växelvis: Att dela sin vardag mellan två
hem
Rakel Berman
”Föräldrar i vår tid - föräldraskap, föräldrastöd och familjers villkor”, Göteborg den 15/11 2012 - 2012-01-01