Children after Parents' Separation in France, Russia and Lithuania: Different Relations with Mother and Father?

In Russia and Lithuania, as in France, conjugal trajectories have become increasingly complex in recent decades, leading to profound changes in children’s family situations and histories. In particular, union dissolution is becoming more frequent and, when separation occurs, child custody is most often granted to the mother. This article describes the relations (frequency of meeting and degree of satisfaction with the relationship) between non-cohabiting children and each of their parents and seeks to identify certain determinants of these relations: sex of children, age at separation, parent with custody, time since separation, parent who initiated the divorce, repartnering of a parent. The analyses reveal a certain number of similarities between countries (such as lower frequency of father-child relations, for example), but also divergences (the child’s sex influences relations in Russia and France but not in Lithuania)