Sentences with phrase «children as bargaining chips»
Common divorce mistakes clients make include forgetting about taxes, allowing friends and family to influence them, letting your emotions control your decisions, not considering the liquidity of assets you receive in the divorce, not securing support payments with insurance, trying to hide assets, quitting work to get more support, not being prepared for settlement negotiations or mediation, dating during the divorce, using the children as bargaining chips, getting emotionally attached to assets, and neglecting post-divorce financial planning.
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All too many couples use their children as bargaining chips.
[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «I haven't seen any research on this... However, in 20 + years of experience working with divorced families, I have no doubt that fathers who were pretty hands - off during the marriage become much more active and involved during the divorce and that, fortunately, many of them sustain this involvement in the post-divorce period... cynical dads who are concerned with punishing their ex, using the children as a bargaining chip, or reducing their exposure to child support [are unlikely] to convincingly and consistently sustain such playacting for any period of time.»
Not exact matches
Every form of punishment is harmful, as Wendy reports, because «it takes the core need of the child and uses it as a bargaining chip.»
Unfortunately, based on your other post about the family dynamics it sounds like the parents use the promise of inheritance as a bargaining chip to keep him subservient to their own whims and wishes... which is no different than a father telling their child that they won't pay for their higher education unless they make the grades and attend the college of their parents choice.
For example, one parent may use custody as a cynical bargaining chip, such as a father in a divorce who has no realistic chance of winning custody (and even no real interest in having the children live with him) threatening to sue for custody because he knows it may prompt the mother to negotiate away some of her financial rights.
In an era where custody battles and parental alienation are mediocrities of a broken family life, the fact can't be denied that children are often used as bargaining chips or powerful weapons to hurt the other parent.