Dr. Edward Kruk Ph.D., specializing in child and family policy shares the 16 arguments for shared parenting
- Shared parenting preserves children’s relationships with both parents
- Shared parenting preserves parents’ relationships with their children
- Shared parenting decreases parental conflict and prevents family violence
- Shared parenting reflects children’s preferences and views about their needs and best interests
- Shared parenting reflects parents’ preferences and views about their children’s needs and best interests
- Shared parenting reflects child caregiving arrangements before divorce
- Shared parenting enhances the quality of parent-child relationships
- Shared parenting decreases parental focus on “mathematizing time” and reduces litigation
- Shared parenting provides an incentive for inter-parental negotiation, mediation and the development of parenting plans
- Shared parenting provides a clear and consistent guideline for judicial decision-making
- Shared parenting reduces the risk and incidence of parental alienation
- Shared parenting enables enforcement of parenting orders, as parents are more likely to abide by an equal parental responsibility order
- Shared parenting addresses social justice imperatives regarding protection of children’s rights
- Shared parenting addresses social justice imperatives regarding parental authority, autonomy, equality, rights and responsibilities
- The discretionary best interests of the child / sole custody model is not empirically supported
- A rebuttable legal presumption of shared parenting responsibility is empirically supported
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