The Seventh International Conference on Shared Parenting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 3-6 December 2025 at the University of Lisbon
The conference will be held in person at the University of Lisbon with the option to join virtually for those unable to attend physically. Specialists in the field of shared parenting and other family related issues representing the academic sciences, the legal and family professions, and civil society are invited to present their research results, professional practice accounts, and examples of best practice and impact at this international, interdisciplinary and interprofessional conference. The theme of this conference is:
Shared Parenting in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities
Since the formation of ICSP in 2014, there has been a growing consensus globally that shared parenting, where children alternate their home life across households, represents not just a viable model of family life for children and young people but in the majority of cases the most desirable outcome for them where parents do not live together. However, the ways in which shared parenting is enacted and the extent to which it is understood and supported in practice varies enormously from country to country and across jurisdictions. This is due not least to the different ways in which shared parenting can be viewed, depending on whether it is being considered as a judicial decision, a family practice, an administrative framework, a discourse, an aspiration, an ideology or a political tool. To this we might also add a psychological or emotional imperative.
