The lawyers and judges surveyed also reported a substantial increase in the use of
equal parenting time over the past five years: 31 % of participants reported a substantial increase in such arrangements; 53 % reported somewhat of an increase; 16 % reported no change; and less than 1 % reported a decrease in such arrangements.
Not exact matches
Not all born of human
parents, not all who share in the bond of human generations
over time, will seem
equal in dignity — if and when those practices become accepted among us.
Our custody and
parenting arrangement lawyers led by Lorne N. MacLean, QC, have noticed how custody and
parenting arrangements have progressed
over time moving from the one primary
parent theory in the 1970's to joint custody in the 1980's and 1990's but not necessarily
equal time to the now more common 50/50 shared
parenting time regimes.
This is not the case as it is possible for one
parent to have custody
over a child, but the child will spend
equal time living with both
parents, or the child may live primarily with one
parent, and both
parents may share custody.
Arguing
over whether
parenting time should be exactly
equal or not is counterproductive.
Furthermore, the measure would have given each
parent in a custody case, unless one
parent was proven unfit,
equal parental rights and responsibilities,
parenting time, primary residential responsibility and decision making responsibility
over a child.
All in all, our results showed that relationship characteristics in adolescent relationships with
parents and friends are mainly bidirectionally associated
over time with a stronger influence from
parent — adolescent relationships to friendships than vice versa in early to middle adolescence and an
equal mutual influence in middle to late adolescence.
Saying «I want
equal time with each of you» doesn't mean that's actually what they want; it's what they think is fair to their
parents, and it will enable them to avoid expressing a preference for one
over the other.