Parenting

By National Post on 05/31/2017 “…I can recommend one safe policy position that Scheer should support: equal shared parenting (ESP) as the legal default following parental separations. ESP was a plank in Stephen Harper’s platform back in 2004, and to my knowledge was never officially abrogated. Yet, not only did Harper fail to address it […]

By Psychology Today 06/09/2017 “…I feel like a broken record, always mentioning the fact that I have three sons and five grandsons. But I don’t think there is anything that defines me more. As someone whose academic interest in gender issues began when I only had two sons and no grandsons, the fact that I am not

By National Parents Organization on 06/04/2017 “…I find I must take a short detour from reporting on the International Conference on Shared Parenting. Why? For two reasons. The first is that the conference so powerfully made the case for shared parenting that this article was impossible for me to allow to stand (IF Studies, 6/2/17). Second, the

By Stat News on 05/26/2017 “…Toward the end of the 20th century, divorce decrees offered children visits with their father every other weekend. The term visits captured the transformation of dad into something like an uncle, where the children are guests in his home. …” Read the entire article: https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/26/divorce-shared-parenting-children-health/

By Dads Divorce “…Backed by numerous studies, supporters have pushed for revisions to family law statutes so that children of divorce are given equal access to each parent. Historically, courts have utilized a sole custody model in which one parent is awarded primary custody while the other is essentially sidelined as a secondary parent and only