Parenting

By Columbia Tribune on 02/16/2018 “… The House bill unanimously passed out of the House Judiciary Committee last week, and after three years of educating legislators about the benefits of shared parenting, including passage of a new state law in 2016, we feel this is the year that a “rebuttable presumption” of equal parenting time can […]

By M on 02/19/2018 “… But, most mainstream media outlets don’t have the guts to confront these statistics? Why? Because they don’t want to anger their female viewership, let alone rock the boat when it comes to the popular narrative that women can have it all and do it all — including motherhood — all by themselves. …” Read the

By The Guardian on 02/06/2018 “… Gorell Barnes, now 74, has specialised in fractured and reformed families, learning to see divorce and repartnering from the child’s point of view. In a new book, Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times, she focuses on men and children who live apart, their relations often complicated further by mental

By NPR Illinois on 02/08/2018 “… Illinois is joining 35 other states this year attempting to give divorced couples equal parenting time. The issue is stirring debate among family law attorneys, mental health professionals, parents and others.  …” Read the entire article: http://nprillinois.org/post/equal-parenting-time-proposal-stirring-debate-illinois#stream/0

By Arizona Range News on 02/13/2018 “… This standard is intended to guard children from conflict and abuse, and to promote stability, but because it is vague, and not based on empirical evidence, it is susceptible to influences of what Edward Kruk, a social work researcher, describes in the The American Journal of Family Therapy as

By I News on 02/05/2018 “… “Are dads being airbrushed out of existence?” might sound like the sort of internet conspiracy theory dreamt up by men’s rights activists, angry dads in Batmen outfits, or even outright misogynists. …” Read the entire article: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/uk-fathers-airbrushed-existence-family-courts-favouring-bankrolling-mothers/

By Richmond Time Dispatch on 01/25/2018 “… The commonwealth is at a crossroads. It is a crossroads of opportunity, truth, and what’s actually best for children and families, intact or divorced/separated. Shared parenting (or shared/joint physical custody) has been presented to Virginia’s General Assembly several times over the past decade, but never has it been more timely.

By Baltimore Post Examiner on 01/17/2018 “… The Washington Post recently urged Maryland lawmakers to reject a presumption of shared parenting time for the children of divorced parents. The Post Editorial Board made the false assumption that it would impose a one-size-fits-all rule on the number of overnights and prevent judges from using discretion in individual cases to protect children. This

By CBC on 01/03/2018 “… The breakdown of a marriage is a difficult experience, and for many couples with children, the goal is to parent them in tandem, or form a shared parenting agreement. …” Read the entire article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coparenting-book-divorce-1.4472115

By National Post on 12/27/2017 “… Ontario Court Judge Sheilagh O’Connell delivered her exquisitely fair decision in the decade-long and “very high-conflict” child custody case on Dec. 22. Then, inshallah, perhaps for the holidays she was able to retreat into the zany confines of a ordinarily dysfunctional family, if not her own, then a rented one.