[misterlister-FO] Shared Parenting
- From: "Roger Smith" <publicist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:15:12 -0800
The term "shared parenting, refers to a post-divorce parenting arrangement that
attempts to approximate the parent-child relationships in the original
two-parent home, in which both parents have not only equal rights and
responsibilities for their children's welfare and upbringing but have an active
role to play in the daily routines of their children's care and development,
and in which each other remain salient attachment figures in their children's
lives.
As the living arrangement that most closely resembles the pre-divorce family in
cases where both parents had an active parenting role before divorce, shared
parenting encompasses both shared physical caretaking (the actual day-to-day
care of children) and equal authority regarding children's education, medical
care, and religious upbringing." Kruk, Edward, Ph.D "Although the dispute is
symbolized by a 'versus' which signifies two adverse parties at opposite poles
of a line, there is in fact a third party whose interests and rights make of
the line a triangle. That person, the child who is not an official party to the
lawsuit but whose well-being is in the eye of the controversy, has a right to
shared parenting when both are equally suited to provide it. Inherent in the
express public policy is a recognition of the child's right to equal access and
opportunity with both parents, the right to be guided and nurtured by both
parents, the right to have major decisions made by the application of both
parents' wisdom, judgment and experience. The child does not forfeit these
rights when the parents divorce."
-Presiding Judge Dorothy T. Beasley,
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