| We have 1 or more children who are: (Check all that apply) |
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| Young Adult Chuldren (High School Sr. and College Age): 18 -24 |
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Next is a conditional question. The answer list will only appear if physical custody is not shared and your MLCer does not live at home.| I (the LBS) have physical custody |
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| My MLCer has physical Custody |
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| Custody is shared and relatively even |
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| My MLCer still lives at home |
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| If the first or second are selected, the conditional questions show up. |
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| How often do you or your MLCer visit the children? |
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| Daily unless atypical circumstances prevent it |
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| Once a Month and an extended visit during the Summer or some holidays |
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| Every few months and an extended visit during the Summer or some holidays |
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| They have an extended visit during the Summer or some holidays |
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| Between physical contact there is other contact (phone, email, text…) |
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Should I include a comment that if the MLCer is a multiple returner, answer only for those periods the MLCer is not home?
Here’s a different form of the custody question. I wrote each of these different questions at different times. One may be better or maybe combining pieces of each would be best. This does include a question for adult children—which hopefully I can make conditional based on previous answers, but I don’t know if one question can have multiple conditions in the available features.
So for the non-minor children, this is about living arrangements and it’s more about custody for the minor children.| LBS is custodial parent, MLCer abandoned kids |
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LBS is custodial parent, Infrequent Visitation
contact through phone, Internet (possible geographic distance) |
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LBS is custodial parent, some visitation
2-3 times per month (possibly other contact between visits) |
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LBS is custodial parent, regular visitation
Once a week or more |
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| LBS has primary joint custody |
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| MLCer is custodial parent, no or almost no visitation |
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| MLCer is custodial parent, some visitation |
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| MLCer is custodial parent, regular visitation |
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| MLCer has primary joint custody |
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Children are split between the parents
( 1 or more lives with the MLCer, 1 or more lives with the LBS)
Please give details in the comments box at the end of the survey. |
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All those above are for Biological/Adopted Children of the MLCer and LBS. I haven’t gotten very far for step children, but here is a list.| Minor Step: MLCer's Biological/Adopted Children |
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| MLCer was the main custodial parent |
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| MLCer shared custody (or it changed a few times) |
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| MLCer was the only active parent |
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| MLCer was not the main custodial parent |
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| MLCer was not an active parent--little to no contact |
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I may add a condition to that to ask more questions if there was little to no contact—such as was it due to the other parent keeping the child from the MLCer (pre-MLC)?
Okay, off the parenting issue and to employment. I just thought of this today, so it’s not advanced. Does it need to be?| My MLCer's main job was as a stay at home parent. |
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| My MLCer had a professional career-track job. |
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| My MLCer had a steady but non-career-track job. |
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| My MLCer had a multiple jobs or careers over the years and did not really find his or her footing toward stability or success. |
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| My MLCer was self-employed and the business was going well. |
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| My MLCer was self-employed and the business has been rough. |
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| My MLCer and I ran a business together and the business has been going well. |
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| My MLCer and I ran a business together and the business has been rough. |
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As I think about it, yes it needs to be more advanced. An MLCer may have just lost a good career-track job or something. So help formulating that sort of question or a section for that would be great. I realized framed that question in the past tense, but it could be present, so I need to show if it’s only the past and that has changed or if it is still ongoing. I may be able to make that conditional. It also seems important to include a portion of career-change; has the MLCer decided made a drastic career change—going back to school and a completely new field. These same questions should be asked regarding the LBS. Does that mean I would ask them twice, or have a section within each for the MLCer and the LBS—would that be possible with conditional questions? Hmmm, things to think about.
I also think it might be good to create an update survey for people who have completed the survey to update information—such as if their spouse moves out, files for separation or divorce or a divorce is finalized. I don’t know about including changes rather than updates—like switching contact styles—other than for previously at home MLCers, or a low/high energy designation of the LBS couldn’t tell before. That might just be too complex for coding—at least at this stage. But such a form would include several of the date fields from the original for matching with the original entry—and then I could just manually change the updated fields.
So let me know if you have suggestions or more ideas for making it more credible. I may or may not respond regularly since we’re trying to move and that’s going to be a priority for a while, but I will add suggestions to my notes file.
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