Family lawyers at Mishcon de Reya conducted the study to mark the 20th anniversary of the Children Act, which aimed to improve the welfare of children caught in the middle of family break-up. It surveyed 2,000 people who had been involved in a divorce as a child and 2,000 parents who had separated or divorced over the past 20 years.
Half the parents said they had put their children through court processes over access issues and living arrangements, with 20 per cent saying they had tried to make their partner's experience of the separation 'as unpleasant as possible' regardless of the effect this had on their children.
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