THE JOINT CUSTODY ADVOCATES CLAIM: Lerman, Isabel A. «Adjustment of latency age children in joint and single custody arrangements» California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, 1989 This study evaluated 90 children, aged 7 to 12, divided equally among maternal, joint legal, and joint physical custody groups.
Don't you think it's a little odd that the same advocates of the legal defense theory of parental alienation syndrome also are
joint custody advocates?
Not exact matches
Advocates of
joint custody also believe that the involvement of both parents in the child's life promotes the best interests of the child.
Whether you are working harmoniously with your spouse for
joint custody, or are seeking sole
custody to protect your child, we will assertively
advocate for a beneficial outcome for your family.
Ha - Redeye notes that «litigants» (presumably fathers» rights
advocates) made this claim before the Special
Joint Committee on Child
Custody and Access, which reported in December 1998.
If Gardner's above observations are credible even in part: why haven't we heard the same folks
advocating to just get rid of the misguided and harmful notion of
joint custody, and the denigration of mothers» primary parenting?
So they pretend that they really care about their kids and join fathers rights groups and
advocate for
joint custody and lower child support payments so they can feel better about themselves.
Glenn Sacks has complained about recent responses to his and other fathers» rights
advocates» comments about
joint custody.
I have consistently
advocated for
joint legal and physical
custody.
And... Why is this
Advocate of Calling it «Adult - Child Sex» So Interested in Touting
Joint Custody?
THE FATHERS» RIGHTS
ADVOCATES SAY, under the title: Research on Shared Parenting and
Joint Custody that Joint custody and shared parenting have been studied for more than a quarter - century, with the majority of studies indicating significant benefits for ch
Custody that
Joint custody and shared parenting have been studied for more than a quarter - century, with the majority of studies indicating significant benefits for ch
custody and shared parenting have been studied for more than a quarter - century, with the majority of studies indicating significant benefits for children.
From another study frequently touted by the fathers» rights
advocates as supporting
joint custody: «The author cautions courts... against making
joint custody mandatory, naming several situations in which such a blanket decision would be deleterious.
Braver is a staunch
advocate of continued father involvement in children's lives after divorce, and of
joint legal
custody as a tool to promote father involvement.
THE FATHERS» RIGHTS
ADVOCATES POINT TO: Rockwell - Evans, Kim Evonne, «Parental and Children's Experiences and Adjustment in Maternal Versus
Joint Custody Families» Doctoral dissertation, 1991.
THE FATHERS» RIGHTS
ADVOCATES and the forensic parenting evaluators and who indulge them (expediently forming their opinions from secondary sources and «literature») CLAIM:...
Joint legal
custody has been consistently linked with more parental involvement, higher child support compliance, and less conflict between parents.
THE FATHERS» RIGHTS
ADVOCATES POINT TO: Wilkinson, Ronald Richard, «A Comparison of Children's Post-divorce Adjustment in Sole and
Joint Physical
Custody Arrangements Matched for Types of Parental Conflict» Doctoral dissertation, 1992; Texas Woman's University.
Contrary to the posturing in the last sentence of the pro-
joint custody advocates, above, children in the more optimal
joint custody situations (the ones that endured) did no better than those in sole
custody (a group which commenced containing the most problematic cases and also which accrued those thoroughly impossible
joint custody situations that failed), and so, if all ended up «no different,» then those who remained in their
joint custody situations were unnecessarily worse off than they had to have been.
Section IV discusses the incongruities between the concept of
joint custody as
advocated and the realities of a predominantly black community in which poverty defines the lives of a significant segment of the population.
A parent who was
advocating a shared parenting or
joint custody arrangement would not want to choose an assessor who had never recommended
joint custody.