Ensuring the well-being of children in judicial cooperation in cases of international child abduction.

In this project, quantitative data will be collected among parents of a child that was internationally abducted. This quantitative data collection is financed by the European Commission and consists of a collaboration between Child Focus (Belgium), the Dutch Centrum Internationale Kinderontvoering (Centrum IKO, the Netherlands), and the Centre Français de Protection de l'Enfance - Enfants Disparus (CFPE, France), Missing Children Europe (MCE, the European umbrella organization for missing children) and the University of Antwerp. Data will be collected in the period September-October 2016 and form a population-based source of information on socio-demographic, individual, familial and social characteristics of abducting and left-behind parents and their children. Furthermore, qualitative interviews will be conducted among adolescents that were abducted.

Keywords:CHILDREN

Disciplines:Applied sociology, Policy and administration, Social psychology, Social stratification, Social theory and sociological methods, Sociology of life course, family and health, Other sociology and anthropology, Law