Sentences with phrase «custodial mothers»

20 % of custodial mothers see no need for the children to continue a relationship with their fathers, and 40 % of children of divorce haven't seen their father in a year.

The truth be told, many good mothers face a lot of bad days when they become custodial mothers.

Much of what is known about divorced fathers comes from reports of custodial mothers, surveys, or census data.

How to increase parental involvement: Increase fathers» access to their children by involving custodial mothers in the programs and providing the fathers with legal services to gain visitation rights.

Further, 20 % of custodial mothers see no need for the children to continue a relationship with their fathers, and 40 % of children of divorce haven't seen their father in a year.

The labors of solo parenting, aggravated by financial woes and worries, leave many custodial mothers harried and haggard.

According to the US Census Bureau, only 37 percent of custodial mothers receive the full child support payments they are due.

Moreover, in high conflict divorces, despite such measures as wage garnishment and payments to Child Support Collection units, custodial mothers sometimes find that collection of court - ordered support becomes a continuing problem with their uncooperative former spouses.

«Perhaps the most significant factor that helps us to understand why custodial mothers lack a discourse with which to voice their concerns... is that they must fight against a dominant discourse that controls all the terms of the modern custody debate.

Sole custody is bad for custodial mothers, too, as a new study from the Nuffield Foundation, shows.

Many times custodial mothers struggle with noncustodial fathers who violate custody and visitation court orders.

In addition, children whose custodial mother cohabited before remarriage appeared to be more socially competent throughout the two years after remarriage, while also experiencing less negative family relationships.

Based on interviews with pairs of custodial and non-custodial parents, custodial mothers interfere with fathers» visits with their children at a rate of 20 % - 40 %.

Further, 20 % of custodial mothers see no need for the children to continue a relationship with their fathers, and 40 % of children of divorce haven't seen their father in a year.

According to Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2009, a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau every two years (and most recently in December 2011), there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States today, and those parents are responsible for raising 22 million children.

So, although over 80 % of custodial parents were women, 36.8 % of custodial mothers were never married.

For example, a custodial mother could lose sole custody if she denied the father the right to visit, sought to change the child's surname, and refused to let the child talk on the phone with the father.

The relocation of children by custodial mothers has helped fuel what is known as the «father's rights» movement.

According to research, about half of all children in joint physical custody see both parents at least weekly, compared to one in 10 children in traditional custody arrangements (custodial mother, noncustodial father).

Most commonly, a custodial mother must establish a man's paternity before requesting child support.

In most cases, the custodial mother seeks to block the noncustodial father from exercising visitation, and in many cases, the father then withholds child support.

As of 2003, 43.7 % of custodial mothers and 56.2 % of custodial fathers were either separated or divorced.

The emotional and psychological wear and tear on the mother, who, even if she has a cooperative former spouse, often transforms the custodial mother into an enervated and exhausted bundle of nerves.

Most courts approve a good faith move by a custodial mother that does not adversely affect the best interest of the child.

Nonresident father contact with children and involvement in their schools within the past year are associated with the same three factors: fathers paying child support; custodial mothers being more educated; and custodial homes not experiencing financial difficulties.

Comparisons were made to determine whether the custodial mother's number of dating partners, remarriage courtship length, or the timing and sequence of typical courtship stages affected the child's adjustment and his or her relationships with the residential parents after remarriage.

The sparks start to fly when the custodial mother decides to move with the children, especially an extended distance from the non-custodial father.

For example, if the child is an infant or very young child, the non-custodial father gets several shorter periods of visitation during the week, especially if the custodial mother is breastfeeding the child.

Very often when a custodial mother announces her plans to relocate beyond an easy visitation distance (100 miles or less), the noncustodial father raises the cry, «What about a father's rights?»

In fact, Shephard (1992) reports that there is significant abuse of some custodial mothers by non-residential fathers.

Custodial mothers» perceptions of visitation and payment of child support by non-custodial fathers in families with low and high levels of pre-separation interparental conflict.

It is apparent that custodial mothers have considerable influence on the father - child relationship after divorce.

The program's effects were assessed using unemployment insurance records, child support agency records, and surveys of a subset of fathers in the study and the custodial mothers of their children.

For example, in one common situation, a court may award the custodial mother the marital home and give her husband cash assets even when that distribution is not equal.

In second marriages, the climb becomes even steeper when a spouse finds himself caught, for example, between the financial demands of a former wife, who is the custodial mother of his children, and his new wife, who believes the first wife is just being greedy.

The alienating parent is most often the custodial mother but alienation by non-custodial fathers or mothers was also observed.

The case vignette of Mr. and Mrs. C. in Part (I) demonstrated how a determined, unscrupulous father succeeded in wresting custody from a fit, custodial mother, who was the target parent.

A custodial mother must usually have either the father's written consent to the move or, if the father does not consent, then permission from the court.

There are lots of them to look at — nearly half of all custodial mothers and three - quarters of custodial fathers don't have a legal agreement for child support payments in place.

In fact, the overall employment status of custodial mothers and custodial fathers looks very different.