This article lists mainly external links to academic and sponsored research articles and departments. It is intended for people who are interested in the topic of family separation and how it affects children in particular.

• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Together and apart: Children and parents experiencing separation and divorce
• Economic & Social Research Council
  • Fathers' involvement is crucial
  • Life after divorce: why we should consider the lives of the children in a wider context
• Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
  • Frequency of Divorced Father's Contact with their Children and Child Support
• Family Policy Studies Centre, University of Oxford
  • Family Briefing Papers
• Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
  • Distress among children whose separated or divorced parents cannot agree arrangements for them, British Journal of Social Work, 33, 227-238, Bream, V. & Buchanan, A., 2003
  • Promoting Children's Emotional Well-being - Messages from Research (Ann Buchanan and Barbara Hudson)
• Centre for Research into Parenting and Children, University of Oxford
• The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (ESYTC)
  • Teachers’ Ratings of Behaviour (for children in various family circumstances)
• Lancaster University (Charlie Lewis)
  • Fathers in Sure Start
  • Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children’s Social Understanding within Social Interaction
  • Social Cognition
• University of Leeds
  • Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
• DFES
  • Child Contact Survey 2003 in which 77% of parents living apart from their children indicated that they saw them either every day, or at least once a week, or at least once a month, whereas 14% said they never saw them at all.
• UNICEF
  • The State of the World's Children (Annual)