Sentences with phrase «children meaningful contact»

Florida law seeks to promote happy and healthy children by giving children meaningful contact and time with both parents.

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Meaningful positive interaction in the form of eye contact, smiling, and physical affection can result in the child bonding with a variety of people, including fathers, grandparents, siblings, or even neighbours.

The child's need for frequent and meaningful contact with both parents, and each parent's willingness to be responsible for the child's needs

In the latest US census bureau, an estimated 24 Million children (33 %), live absent from their biological father, and in the UK, The Centre for Social Justice reported 1m children growing up without meaningful contact with their father, and 3m predominantly with their mothers only.

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Furthermore, LJ Wall castigates «intelligent» parents who — when faced with the unpalatable prospect of losing frequent, regular and meaningful contact with their children as a consequence of LTR, and with the equally unpalatable expectation (according to the science) that the resulting separation will have disasterous consequences for their progeny — have the audacity to apply their «intelligence» in challenging the received wisdom of the courts!

The Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines are based on the premise that it is usually in a child's best interest to have frequent, meaningful and continuing contact with each parent.

Parents should be flexible in scheduling parenting time and should consider the benefits to the child of frequent, meaningful and regular contact with each parent and the schedules of the child and each parent.

If permission is granted, the grandparent will need to show that they had an «important, meaningful» relationship with the child before the contact stopped, and that it is in the child's best interests that the contact continues.

A custodial parent who wants to relocate out of state must file a petition with the court requesting permission because both parents have the right to maintain meaningful and continuous contact with the child.

4.1.6 The Court and the Children's Contact Service should consider and recommend to the parent any ongoing appropriate assistance (for example, by way of ongoing counselling or therapy) which would support maintenance of the meaningful relationship between the child and the parent with whom the child is not then substantially living.

3.12.1 It is recognised by the Court and Children's Contact Services that the families accessing the service are likely to require other assistance by way of complementary services to establish or re-establish meaningful relationships between a child and his or her parent.

The Court and Children's Contact Services wish to implement the commencement and / or maintenance of a meaningful relationship between a child and his or her parent and other people significant to the child's care, except when it would be contrary to the child's best interests (s 60B Family Law Act) by facilitating the child spending time with his or her parent.

Finally the guideline seeks to facilitate the Family Law Courts and Children's Contact Services assisting families» move to independent arrangements to maintain meaningful relationships between children and their Children's Contact Services assisting families» move to independent arrangements to maintain meaningful relationships between children and their children and their parents.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

Child contact centres are instrumental in facilitating and supporting thousands of meaningful and positive contact sessions with parents and children each year.

The best interests factors in some states include mention of how children thrive best when they have frequent and meaningful contact with both parents.

A number of years ago, some brilliant (and I say «brilliant» both literally and sarcastically) people put together what is known as Indiana's «Parenting Time Guidelines» (guidelines that apply in all legal custody cases to assure that children have frequent and meaningful contact with each parent).

Missouri law favors joint custody of children when parents separate, so that children have «frequent, continuing and meaningful contact with both parents.»

Section 14-10-124 of the state's legislative code specifically states that children should have «frequent and meaningful» contact with both parents post-divorce.

No family or child is the same and we should encourage parents to make decisions based on what is best for their children including, but not limited to, meaningful contact with both parents.

Colorado law favors meaningful and lifelong contact between both parents and the child as part of an APR action.

It is common practice in Alabama to assure that younger children have frequent, continuing, and meaningful contact with both co-parents, provided that they are fit to handle their parental responsibilities.

«They don't see a shared responsibility approach to be in the child's best interest,» but according to leading psychologists and social scientists Robert Bouserman, William Fabricius and Kruk himself, meaningful contact and meaningful relationships with both parents are definitely in the best interests of children.

Children Rights Council (CRC) works to assue a child frequent, meaningful and continuing contact with parents and extended family after divorce or separation.

Utah places a strong emphasis on both parents having meaningful contact with their children following a divorce.

Although numerous states have public policy statements in their custody statutes which encourage children having «frequent and meaningful continuing contact» with both parents, see, e.g., Cal.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Create, adapt, and execute daily lesson plans based on Parenting and School Readiness curriculum • Administer pre - and post-testing of parents and children to determine measurable progress • Organize family learning activities and events both in the classroom and in the community to support program objectives • Facilitate Parenting education, Parent and Child Interactive literacy sessions, and Parents Interacting with Infants playgroups • Manage routine administrative functions of the classroom including recording attendance, enforcing attendance policy, and contacting absent students and encouraging their return to class • Provide supplemental learning material and activities based on parents» and children's» needs • Maintain currency in Early Childhood education techniques and strategies • Develop meaningful relationships with parents and children in our program and also with other team members • Communicate with parents, staff and administrators regarding issues that concern parents and children • Facilitate a safe, educational and stimulating learning environment • Participate in the planning and implementation of program evaluation activities • Operate standard office equipment and uses required software applications • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Good faith simply means acting with an improper motive, usually with the intent to deprive the other parent of frequent and meaningful contact with the child.

The state's code stresses frequent, meaningful and continuing contact between a child and both divorced parents, and it has revamped its legislation to remove the word «visitation» and replace it with «parenting time.»

However, the state's intention to maintain meaningful contact between non-custodial parents and their children manifests in less extreme circumstances.

This usually means frequent and meaningful contact between children and both parents.

And the best interests standard requires the court to apply the same factors in any custody decision: the wishes of the parents; the need to assure a continuing and meaningful relationship with both parents and which parent would be more likely to facilitate that relationship; the interaction of the child with parents, siblings and other family members; which parent would more likely allow frequent, continuing and meaningful contact with the other parent; the child's adjustment to home, school and community; the mental and physical health of both parents, including any issues of domestic violence; the intention of either parent to relocate; and the wishes of the child, if the child is sufficiently mature to express such wishes.

There has been much psychology research on children's attachment to their parents, and the most recent findings are clear: children — particularly young children — need frequent and meaningful contact with both parents.