Children in shared physical custody arrangements

MobileKids is a 5-years ERC Starting Grant project that seeks to understand how Belgian, French and Italian children living in egalitarian shared custody arrangements, and aged between 10 and 16, accommodate to their multi-local lives. The project seeks to understand in particular how they maintain family and social relations, through the appropriation of mobility and virtual connectedness. Based on the preliminary results of the Leuven/Louvain Adolescents Survey (LAdS), a survey conducted in Belgian secondary schools, and which aims at mapping the diversity of family arrangements and their influence on the beliefs, attitudes and practices of adolescents, we will focus our presentation on the socio-demographic profiles of children growing up in shared physical custody arrangements, on the characteristics of this family arrangement, and on the level of contact children maintain with relatives across their two households, via the use of digital technologies