Single Parenting: This Arrangement Stresses Kids Out the Most!
Changes in family law in many countries have preceded research addressing the developmental impacts of different patterns of parenting after separation. Regarding the wellbeing of kids with divorced parents, the debate over what kind of custody arrangement is best rages on. But a new study, published Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, […]
Fathers Seek Parity in Custody Cases!
Some of the biggest battles over child custody are playing out not in courtrooms, but in statehouses. Prompted partly by fathers concerned that men for too long have gotten short shrift in custody decisions, about 20 states are considering measures that would change the laws governing which parent gets legal and physical control of a […]
To Be a Dad!
Accusations Of Judicial Corruption Bring Entire System Into Question!
A state Supreme Court judge in Brooklyn and five other men, including his former court clerk, a court officer and a divorce lawyer who frequently appeared before him, were arraigned yesterday on charges that they ran a bribery scheme to rig the outcome of divorce and child custody cases. Based on evidence developed in the […]
Prenatal program enhances couples’ co-parenting relationship, improves childhood outcomes!
Children whose parents participated in a prenatal program aimed at enhancing couples’ co-parenting relationship were better adjusted at age seven than children whose parents were assigned to a control group, according to Penn State researchers. Teachers reported significantly better adjustment and positive school engagement among children whose parents received the intervention than in the control […]
Clinical Evidence in Child Custody Determination
In family courts throughout this country, ritualistic transactions and emotional drama cloak highly destructive and lethal court games seldom in the best interest of a child. These Kafka-like scenes (now common in other countries as well), are caused not simply by the dynamics of divorce but by the traumatic “interventions” of the court. If family […]
The Casual Effects of Father Absence!
“The body of knowledge about the causal effects of father absence on child well-being has grown during the early twenty-first century as researchers have increasingly adopted innovative methodological approaches to isolate causal effects. We reviewed 47 such articles and find that, on the whole, articles that take one of the more rigorous approaches to handling […]
Bill Favoring Equal Time for Parents in Canada, Needs Support!
An extensive review of research and family law reforms published in 2013 concludes that an equal time presumption in law provides the best outcomes for children of divorce. The book is The Equal Parent Presumption by Prof. Edward Kruk of the University of British Columbia. This conclusion makes sense to divorced parents. If you are […]
Fatherless Girls
(Source: www.wnd.com)Since the 1960s, women have been sold a bill of goods when they were told they could have it all. And for too many women, “having it all” included having children without the financial support of a husband. For too many fatherless girls, the need for a male role model in their lives is […]
Shared Parenting Comes Forth in Illinois!!
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. To the list of purposes of the Act, adds: (i) continuing existing child-parent relationships; and (ii) recognizing that the involvement of each parent for equal time and not less than 35% of residential parenting time per week is presumptively in the children’s best interests. Provides that […]
