Sentences with phrase «traditional joint custody arrangement»

Instead of each parent sharing the decision - making for their child in every respect as in a traditional joint custody arrangement, in a parallel parenting regime, parents assume full decision - making responsibility for different domains.

Not exact matches

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).

For this reason the concept of joint custody developed in the 1970s and 1980s as an alternative to the traditional single parent custodial arrangement.

While there is much spindoctoring of isolated and arbitrarily selected findings claiming here or there to discover benefits or «no difference» between child wellbeing outcomes in joint versus sole custody, these are specious, and overall, children do far better in more traditional arrangements.