Responding to concerns about a study of infant overnight care postseparation, with comments on consensus: Reply to Warshak (2014) McIntosh, Jennifer E., Smyth, Bruce M. and Kelaher, Margaret A. 2015, Responding to concerns about a study of infant overnight care postseparation, with comments on consensus: Reply to Warshak (2014), Psychology, public policy, and law, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 111-119, doi: 10.1037/h0101018. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Responding to concerns about a study of infant overnight care postseparation, with comments on consensus: Reply to Warshak (2014) Author(s) McIntosh, Jennifer E. orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-5003 Smyth, Bruce M. Kelaher, Margaret A. Journal name Psychology, public policy, and law Volume number 21 Issue number 1 Start page 111 End page 119 Total pages 9 Publisher American Psychological Association Place of publication Washington, DC Publication date 2015-01-01 ISSN 1076-8971 Keyword(s) parental separation infants young children attachment shared parenting Summary © 2015 American Psychological Association. Richard Warshak (2014) published a "consensus report" in this journal (Vol. 20, No. 1) documenting a policy position on infants and overnight care following parental separation. He asserts that "[t]here is no evidence to support postponing the introduction of regular and frequent involvement, including overnights, of both parents with their babies and toddlers" (p. 60). To support this assertion, Warshak presents a series of detailed concerns about an Australian study the authors conducted, some of which involve serious misrepresentations of our aims, methodology, and findings. In this reply, we clarify the purpose, context, and limitations of our study, and refute one of Warshak's central theses: that our study's design and results favor primary maternal care of young children and discourage overnights and shared parenting for fathers. We appraise the Warshak article, and consider whether other approaches to consensus statements and to policy dialogue might better serve families involved in the family law system, particularly when emotive debates such as the overnight care of young children cannot yet be resolved by science. Language eng DOI 10.1037/h0101018 Field of Research 1605 Policy And Administration 1701 Psychology 1801 Law 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2015, American Psychological Association Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30072182 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 10 Apr 2015, 16:10:18 EST Mon, 24 Aug 2015, 15:12:24 EST Tue, 25 Aug 2015, 05:00:26 EST Tue, 25 Aug 2015, 08:08:31 EST Wed, 27 Jan 2016, 15:21:28 EST Thu, 28 Jan 2016, 05:07:33 EST Wed, 09 Mar 2016, 11:37:10 EST Wed, 09 Mar 2016, 11:38:16 EST Wed, 09 Mar 2016, 11:49:04 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 5 times in TR Web of Science Cited 6 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 252 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 27 Jan 2016, 15:21:28 EST

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