Children of Divorce and Their Viewpoints on Visiting-Rights

Abstract

One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven apprentices were asked to complete a questionnaire on the right of divorced parents to visit their children. The results reported in this paper are based on the answers given by those three hundred and thirty-eight apprentices (18% of all the interviewed apprentices) whose parents were divorced. Approximately one-third of these young people were seeing the parent who was not their legal guardian once a month. This is the visiting-rate most often advised by Swiss courts. Another third of the 338 young people had contact with that same parent more than once a month and the remaining apprentices had less or even no more contact with that same parent. If divorced parents remarry, the amount of visiting they do considerably changes. 45.6% of the 338 apprentices never went on holiday with the parent who was not their legal guardian.