Author	Title	Country	Discipline	Article type/ methodology
Abdulmohsen Alhalal et al. (2012)	Identifying factors that predict women's inability to maintain separation from an abusive partner.	Canada	Nursing	Quantitative
Anderson and Saunders (2003)	Leaving an abusive partner: an empirical review of predictors, the process of leaving, and psychological well-being.	Multiple	Social work/Sociology	Literature review
Anselmi (2011)	Legal File. Domestic violence and its implications on child abuse.	US	Nursing/Law	Case study Commentary
Austin et al. (2013)	Bench Book for Assessing Parental Gatekeeping in Parenting Disputes: Understanding the Dynamics of Gate Closing and Opening for the Best Interests of Children.	US	Law	Bench book
Beck et al. (2013)	Patterns of intimate partner violence in a large, epidemiological sample of divorcing couples.	US - Arizona	Psychology	Quantitative
Bemiller (2008)	When battered mothers lose custody: a qualitative study of abuse at home and in the courts.	US – Ohio	Social work/Sociology	Qualitative
Bendlin and Sheridan (2019)	Risk Factors for Severe Violence in Intimate Partner Stalking Situations: An Analysis of Police Records	Australia	Psychology	Quantitative
Black et al. (2021)	The intersection of child welfare, intimate partner violence and child custody disputes: secondary data analysis of the Ontario incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect.	Canada	Social work/Sociology	Quantitative
Broughton and Ford-Gilboe (2016)	Predicting family health and well-being after separation from an abusive partner: role of coercive control, mother's depression and social support.	Canada	Nursing	Quantitative
Brownridge (2006)	Violence against women post-separation	Multiple	Social work/Sociology	Literature Review
Brownridge et al. (2008)	The elevated risk for non-lethal post-separation violence in Canada: a comparison of separated, divorced, and married women.	Canada	Social work/Sociology	Quantitative
Bruno (2018)	Financial oppression and post-separation child positions in Sweden.	Sweden	Social work/Sociology	Qualitative
Buckley et al. (2011)	‘Like waking up in a Franz Kafka novel’: service users' experiences of the child protection system when domestic violence and acrimonious separations are involved.	Ireland	Social work/Sociology	Qualitative
Campbell et al. (2007)	Intimate partner homicide: review and implications of research and policy.	US	Nursing	Literature review
Campbell et al. (2003)	Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: results from a multisite case control study.	US	Nursing/Public Health/Medicine	Mixed methods
Carroll (2000)	When domestic violence leaves home. It can and does invade the workplace.	US	Nursing	Commentary
Cleak et al. (2018)	Screening for Partner Violence Among Family Mediation Clients: Differentiating Types of Abuse.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Mixed methods
Cohen et al. (2002)	Interactional effects of marital status and physical abuse on adolescent psychopathology.	US – New York	Medicine (Psychiatry)	Quantitative
Cramp and Zufferey (2021)	The Removal of Children in Domestic Violence: Widening Service Provider Perspectives.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Crosse and Millar (2017)	Irish Women's Ongoing Experiences of Domestic Abuse in Cases of Separation and Divorce.	Ireland	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Crossman et al. (2016)	“He Could Scare Me Without Laying a Hand on Me”: Mothers' Experiences of Nonviolent Coercive Control During Marriage and After Separation.	US	Family Science	Qualitative
Davies et al. (2008)	Gender inequality and patterns of abuse post leaving.	Canada	Social work/Nursing	Mixed methods
Davis (2002)	Leave-taking experiences in the lives of abused women.	US – Pennsylvania	Nursing	Qualitative
DeKeseredy and Joseph (2006)	Separation and/or divorce sexual assault in rural Ohio: preliminary results of an exploratory study.	US-Ohio	Criminology/Sociology	Mixed methods
DeKeseredy and Schwartz (2008)	Separation/divorce sexual assault in rural Ohio: survivors' perceptions.	US-Ohio	Criminology/Sociology	Qualitative
Drozd and Olesen (2010)	Abuse and alienation are each real: a response to a critique by Joan Meier.	US	Law	Commentary
Elizabeth et al. (2012)	The gendered dynamics of power in disputes over the postseparation care of children.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Elizabeth (2017)	Custody Stalking: A Mechanism of Coercively Controlling Mothers Following Separation	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Ellis (1987)	Post-separation woman abuse: the contribution of lawyers as “barracudas,” “advocates,” and “counsellors.”	Canada	Social Work/Sociology	Typology
Ellis and Dekeseredy (1997)	Rethinking estrangement, interventions, and intimate femicide.	Canada	Social Work/Sociology	Theory
Ellis et al. (2021)	Effects of Historical Coercive Control, Historical Violence, and Lawyer Representation on Post-Separation Male Partner Violence Against Mother Litigants Who Participated in Adversarial Family Court Proceedings.	Canada	Social Work/Sociology	Quantitative
Ellis and Wight (1997)	Estrangement, interventions, and male violence toward female partners.	Canada	Social Work/Sociology	Literature review
Ellis (2017)	Marital Separation and Lethal Male Partner Violence.	Canada	Social Work/Sociology	Literature review and theory
Eriksson and Hester (2001)	Violent men as good-enough fathers? A look at England and Sweden.	England; Sweden	Social Work/Sociology	Commentary
Estefan et al. (2016)	Depression in Women Who Have Left Violent Relationships.	US – Florida	Public health	Quantitative
Faller (2016)	Commentary on the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children's position paper on allegations of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence in divorce/parental relationship dissolution.	US	Social Work/Sociology	Commentary
Feresin et al. (2018)	Family Mediation in Child Custody Cases and the Concealment of Domestic Violence.	Italy	Social Work/Sociology/Psychology/Law	Qualitative
Fields (2008)	Getting beyond “what did she do to provoke him?”: comments by a retired judge on the special issue on child custody and domestic violence.	US	Law	Commentary
Fleming et al. (2012)	Intimate partner stalking victimization and posttraumatic stress symptoms in post-abuse women.	US	Psychology	Quantitative
Forssell and Cater (2015)	Patterns in Child-Father Contact after Parental Separation in a Sample of Child Witnesses to Intimate Partner Violence.	Sweden	Law/Social Work/Sociology	Quantitative
Francia et al. (2019)	Addressing family violence post separation: mothers and fathers' experiences from Australia.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology /	Qualitative
Galántai et al. (2019)	Children Exposed to Violence: Child Custody and its Effects on Children in Intimate Partner Violence Related Cases in Hungary.	Hungary	Social Work/Sociology /	Mixed methods
Geffner and Mueller (2015)	Introduction to the Special Issue on Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: Issues to Consider in Child Custody Evaluations.	US	Psychology	Commentary
Gray et al. (2016)	‘I'm Working Towards Getting Back Together’: Client Accounts of Motivation Related to Relationship Status in Men's Behaviour Change Programmes in New South Wales, Australia.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology /	Qualitative
Gutowski and Goodman (2020)	“Like I'm Invisible”: IPV Survivor-Mothers' Perceptions of Seeking Child Custody through the Family Court System.	US – Massachusetts	Psychology	Qualitative
Hamby et al. (2010)	The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally representative survey of youth.	US	Psychology	Quantitative
Hans et al. (2014)	The effects of domestic violence allegations on custody evaluators' recommendations.	US	Family Science	Qualitative
Hardesty (2002)	Separation assault in the context of postdivorce parenting: an integrative review of the literature.	Multiple	Family Science	Literature Review
Hardesty et al. (2016)	Marital violence and coparenting quality after separation.	US – Midwest	Family Science	Quantitative
Hardesty and Ganong (2006)	How women make custody decisions and manage co-parenting with abusive former husbands.	US	Family Science	Qualitative
Hardesty et al. (2017)	Coparenting relationship trajectories: Marital violence linked to change and variability after separation.	US – Midwest	Family Science	Quantitative
Hardesty et al. (2019)	Relationship dynamics and divorcing mothers' adjustment: Moderating role of marital violence, negative life events, and social support.	US – Midwest	Family Science	Quantitative
Hardesty et al. (2012)	An Integrative Theoretical Model of Intimate Partner Violence, Coparenting After Separation, and Maternal and Child Well-Being.	US	Family Science	Theory development
Harrison (2008)	Implacably hostile or appropriately protective? Women managing child contact in the context of domestic violence.	United Kingdom	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Haselschwerdt et al. (2011)	Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Violence Allegations During Divorce: Feminist and Family Violence Perspectives.	US	Family Science	Qualitative
Hassouneh-Phillips (2001)	American Muslim women's experiences of leaving abusive relationships.	US	Nursing	Qualitative
Hayes (2017)	Indirect Abuse Involving Children During the Separation Process.	US	Criminology	Quantitative
Hayes (2012)	Abusive Men's Indirect Control of Their Partner During the Process of Separation.	US	Criminology	Quantitative
Henze-Pedersen (2021)	The Ghost of Violence: The Lived Experience of Violence After the Act	Denmark	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Hines et al. (2015)	A self-report measure of legal and administrative aggression within intimate relationships.	US	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative synthesis/literature review
Hing et al. (2021)	Impacts of Male Intimate Partner Violence on Women: A Life Course Perspective.	Australia	Nursing/Public Health	Qualitative
Holt (2017)	Domestic Violence and the Paradox of Post-Separation Mothering.	United Kingdom	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Holt (2015)	Post-separation Fathering and Domestic Abuse: Challenges and Contradictions.	United Kingdom	Social Work/Sociology	Mixed methods
Holt (2020)	Domestic Abuse and Post-Separation Contact: Promoting Evidence and Informed Practice.	United Kingdom	Social Work/Sociology	Commentary
Humphreys et al. (2019)	More present than absent: Men who use domestic violence and their fathering.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Mixed methods
Ingrids (2014)	Category work in courtroom talk about domestic violence: Gender as an interactional accomplishment in child custody disputes.	Sweden	Psychology	Qualitative
Jaffe and Crooks (2004)	Partner violence and child custody cases: a cross national comparison of legal reforms and issues.	US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand	Psychology	Literature review
Jaffe et al. (2009)	A framework for addressing allegations of domestic violence in child custody disputes.	Canada	Psychology	Theoretical framework
Jaffe et al. (2008)	Custody disputes involving allegations of domestic violence: Toward a differentiated approach to parenting plans	Canada	Psychology	Theoretical framework
Johnson (2005)	Apples and oranges in child custody disputes: intimate terrorism vs. situational couple violence.	US	Social Work/Sociology	Commentary
Jones and Vetere (2017)	‘You just deal with it. You have to when you've got a child’: A narrative analysis of mothers' accounts of how they coped, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving	United Kingdom, Norway	Psychology	Qualitative
Kan et al. (2012)	Intimate Partner Violence and Coparenting Across the Transition to Parenthood.	US	Psychology	Quantitative
Katz et al. (2020)	When Coercive Control Continues to Harm Children: Post-Separation Fathering, Stalking and Domestic Violence	United Kingdom/Finland	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Kernic et al. (2005)	Children in the crossfire: child custody determinations among couples with a history of intimate partner violence.	US – Washington State	Public health	Quantitative
Khaw et al. (2021)	“The System Had Choked Me Too”: Abused Mothers' Perceptions of the Custody Determination Process That Resulted in Negative Custody Outcomes.	US – Midwest and West Coast	Family Science	Qualitative
Khaw and Hardesty (2015)	Perceptions of boundary ambiguity in the process of leaving an abusive partner.	US – Midwest	Family Science	Qualitative
Kieffer and Turell (2011)	Child Custody and Safe Exchange/Visitation: An Assessment of Marginalized Battered Parents' Needs.	US	Social work/Sociology	Mixed methods
Kolsky and Gee (2021)	Coparenting Quality Mediates the Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Child Behavior Problems in Low-income, Racial and Ethnic Minority Families.	US – Midatlantic	Psychology	Quantitative
Kong (2021)	Beyond ‘Safeguarding’ and ‘Empowerment’ in Hong Kong: Towards a Relational Model for Supporting Women Who Have Left their Abusive Partners.	Hong Kong	Social work/Sociology	Qualitative
Laing (2017)	Secondary Victimization: Domestic Violence Survivors Navigating the Family Law System.	Australia	Social work/Sociology	Qualitative
Lambert (2015)	Introduction to the Special Issue on Attitudes and Current Research Concerning Intimate Partner Violence: Issues for Child Custody.	US	Psychology	Commentary
Lapierre and Côté (2016)	Abused women and the threat of parental alienation: Shelter workers' perspectives.	Canada	Social work/Sociology	Mixed methods
Logan and Walker (2004)	Separation as a risk factor for victims of intimate partner violence: beyond lethality and injury: a response to Campbell.	US	Psychology	Commentary
Logan et al. (2003)	Divorce, custody, and spousal violence: a random sample of circuit court docket records.	US – Kentucky	Psychology/Public Health	Quantitative
Logan et al. (2008)	Factors associated with separation and ongoing violence among women with civil protective orders.	US	Psychology	Mixed methods
Lynch et al. (2021)	Coercive Control, Stalking, and Guns: Modeling Service Professionals' Perceived Risk of Potentially Fatal Intimate Partner Gun Violence.	US	Criminology/Psychology	Quantitative
Lyons et al. (2021)	Risk Factors for Child Death During an Intimate Partner Homicide: A Case–Control Study	US	Public health	Quantitative
Markwick et al. (2019)	Technology and Family Violence in the Context of Post-Separated Parenting.	Australia, multiple	Social work/Sociology	Literature review
McMurray (1997)	Violence against ex-wives: anger and advocacy.	Australia	Nursing	Qualitative
Mechanic et al. (2000)	The impact of severe stalking experienced by acutely battered women: an examination of violence, psychological symptoms and strategic responding.	US	Psychology	Quantitative
Meier (2010)	Getting real about abuse and alienation: a critique of Drozd and Olesen's decision tree.	US	Law	Commentary
Meier (2015)	Johnson's Differentiation Theory: Is It Really Empirically Supported?	US	Law	Commentary
Meier (2020)	U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show?	US	Law	Quantitative
Meyer and Stambe (2020)	Mothering in the Context of Violence: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Mothers' Experiences in Regional Settings in Australia.	Australia	Criminology/Social Work	Qualitative
Miller and Manzer (2021)	Safeguarding Children's Well-Being: Voices From Abused Mothers Navigating Their Relationships and the Civil Courts.	US	Sociology	Qualitative
Miller and Smolter (2011)	Paper Abuse: When All Else Fails, Batterers Use Procedural Stalking.	US	Sociology	Qualitative
Morrison (2015)	‘All Over Now?’ The Ongoing Relational Consequences of Domestic Abuse through Children's Contact Arrangements.	United Kingdom	Sociology	Qualitative
Nielsen et al. (2016)	Exploring Variations Within Situational Couple Violence and Comparisons With Coercive Controlling Violence and No Violence/No Control.	US – Midwest	Family Science	Quantitative
Nikupeteri and Laitinen (2015)	Children's Everyday Lives Shadowed by Stalking: Post separation Stalking Narratives of Finnish Children and Women.	Finland	Sociology	Qualitative
Nikupeteri (2017)	Professionals' critical positionings of women as help-seekers: Finnish women's narratives of help-seeking during post-separation stalking	Finland	Sociology	Qualitative
Ornstein and Rickne (2013)	When does intimate partner violence continue after separation?	Sweden	Economics	Quantitative
Pagelow (1993)	Justice for victims of spouse abuse in divorce and child custody cases.	US	Sociology	Commentary
Pedersen et al. (2013)	Explaining aboriginal/non-aboriginal inequalities in postseparation violence against Canadian women: application of a structural violence approach.	Canada	Medicine/Public Health	Quantitative
Pitman (2017)	Living with Coercive Control: Trapped within a Complex Web of Double Standards, Double Binds and Boundary Violations.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Pond and Morgan (2008)	Protection, manipulation or interference with relationships? Discourse analysis of New Zealand lawyers' talk about supervised access and partner violence.	New Zealand	Psychology	Qualitative
Rennison et al. (2013)	Intimate relationship status variations in violence against women: urban, suburban, and rural differences.	US	Political science/Criminology	Quantitative
Rezey (2020)	Separated Women's Risk for Intimate Partner Violence: A Multiyear Analysis Using the National Crime Victimization Survey.	US	Criminology	Quantitative
Rivera et al. (2018)	A Longitudinal Examination of Mothers' Depression and PTSD Symptoms as Impacted by Partner-Abusive Men's Harm to Their Children.	US	Psychology/Criminology	Quantitative
Rivera et al. (2012)	Abused Mothers' Safety Concerns and Court Mediators' Custody Recommendations.	US	Psychology/Criminology	Mixed Methods
Rosen and O'Sullivan (2005)	Outcomes of custody and visitation petitions when fathers are restrained by protection orders: the case of the New York family courts.	US	Law	Quantitative
Saini et al. (2013)	Child Custody Disputes within the Context of Child Protection Investigations: Secondary Analysis of the Canadian Incident Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect.	Canada	Social work/sociology	Quantitiatve
Saunders (1994)	Child custody decisions in families experiencing woman abuse.	US	Social work/sociology	Literature review
Saunders et al. (2013)	Factors associated with child custody evaluators' recommendations in cases of intimate partner violence.	US	Social work/Sociology/Psychology	Quantitative
Saunders (2015)	Research Based Recommendations for Child Custody Evaluation Practices and Policies in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence.	US	Social work/Sociology	Literature review
Saunders (2007)	Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Risk Factors, and Safety Concerns	US	Social work/Sociology	Literature review
Shalansky et al. (1999)	Abused women and child custody: the ongoing exposure to abusive ex-partners.	Canada	Nursing	Qualitative
Shaw (2017)	Commentary regarding parenting coordination in cases of high conflict disputes.	US	Psychology	Commentary
Shepard and Hagemeister (2013)	Perspectives of Rural Women: Custody and Visitation With Abusive Ex-Partners.	US – Midwest	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Shetty and Edleson (2005)	Adult domestic violence in cases of International Parental Child Abduction.	US/International	Social Work/Sociology/Public Policy/Law	Literature review
Silverman et al. (2004)	Public health matters. Child custody determinations in cases involving intimate partner violence: a human rights analysis	US – Massachusetts	Public health/Law	Qualitative
Slote et al. (2005)	Battered mothers speak out: participatory human rights documentation as a model for research and activism in the United States.	US – Massachusetts	Public health/Law	Qualitative
Louis et al. (2017)	How mothers perceive their own domestic violence victimization and how it impacts their children.	Trinidad & Tobago	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Stark and Hester (2019)	Coercive Control: Update and Review.	US/United Kingdom	Social Work/Sociology	Literature review
Thiara and Humphreys (2017)	Absent presence: the ongoing impact of men's violence on the mother–child relationship.	Australia	Social Work/Sociology	Qualitative
Thompson-Walsh et al. (2018)	Are we in this Together? Post-Separation Co-Parenting of Fathers with and without a History of Domestic Violence.	Canada	Psychology	Qualitative
Toews and Bermea (2017)	“I Was Naive in Thinking, ‘I Divorced This Man, He Is Out of My Life’”: A Qualitative Exploration of Post-Separation Power and Control Tactics Experienced by Women.	US	Family Science	Qualitative
Toews and Bermea (2017)	Male-initiated partner abuse during marital separation prior to divorce.	US	Family Science	Quantitative
Tubbs (2010)	African American women's perspectives of shared parenting after dissolution of a violent relationship.	US	Social Work/Psychology	Qualitative
Turhan (2021)	Safe Father-Child Contact Postseparation in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence and Positive Fathering Skills: A Literature Review	Multiple settings	Social Work/Sociology	Literature review
Vatnar and Bjørkly (2012)	Does Separation or Divorce Make any Difference? An Interactional Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence with Focus on Marital Status.	Norway	Psychology	Mixed methods
Vu et al. (2014)	Divorce in the context of domestic violence against women in Vietnam.	Vietnam	Public health	Qualitative
Walker et al. (2004)	An integrative review of separation in the context of victimization: consequences and implications for women.	US/Multiple	Psychology/Nursing	Literature review
Warnecke et al. (2017)	Sheltering for Safety in Community Women With Divorce Histories.	US	Psychology	Quantitative
Watson and Ancis (2013)	Power and control in the legal system: from marriage/relationship to divorce and custody.	US	Psychology	Qualitative
Weisz and Wiersma (2011)	Does the Public Hold Abused Women Responsible for Protecting Children?	US – Michigan	Social Work/Sociology	Quantitative
Wilson and Daly (1993)	Spousal homicide risk and estrangement.	Canada, Australia, US	Psychology	Quantitative
Wooldredge and Thistlethwaite (2006)	Changing marital status and desistance from intimate assault.	US – Ohio	Criminology	Quantitative
Wuest et al. (2004)	Regenerating family: strengthening the emotional health of mothers and children in the context of intimate partner violence.	Canada	Nursing	Qualitative
Wuest et al. (2006)	Using grounded theory to generate a theoretical understanding of the effects of child custody policy on women's health promotion in the context of intimate partner violence.	Canada	Nursing	Qualitative; theory development
Zeoli et al. (2013)	Post-Separation Abuse of Women and their Children: Boundary-setting and Family Court Utilization among Victimized Mothers.	US – Midwest	Criminology/Psychology/Sociology	Qualitative