s3 Children Act 1975, s12 Children Act 1948 (Child Care Act 1980 s18(1)).
2.
Less than 10 per cent of cases in one survey see EekelaarClive, Custody After Divorce, SSRC, 1977.
3.
This is, perhaps, a trap which Goldstein, Freud and Solnit fall into in Beyond the Best interests of the child, NY Free Press, 1973, when they discuss access arrangements, see especially pp 37–8.
4.
Hall, Law Commission PWP 15 (1966), Maidment, A study in child custody (1976) 6 Fam Law 195, 236.
