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Implications for Change

Andre P. Derdeyn, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1976;33(2):165-171.

Abstract
• The author reviews the criteria by which courts award custody of children and determine visitation rights. In the case described there have been repeated attempts by the noncustodial father to obtain visitation and to modify custody arrangements. A review of literature pertaining to the effects of divorce on children reveals an absence of the type of empirical studies that would be most effective in influencing the courts. The practices outlined in the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, model legislation recently approved by the American Bar Association, are discussed in relation to the case, and are not found to improve appreciably on current practice. The author suggests that the condition of children in the courts can be considerably improved by the involvement of child psychiatrists in consultation, education, and empirical research.

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Va.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 10, 1975.

Read in part before the 26th annual meeting of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children, New York, Nov 22, 1974.

Reprint requests to University of Virginia Medical Center, Box 202, Charlottesville, VA 22901 (Dr Derdeyn).

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