SHARED PARENTING - CANADA Child psychologists echo this, - TopicsExpress



          

SHARED PARENTING - CANADA Child psychologists echo this, pointing to the statistical evidence which illustrates the damaging effects of conflict between parents, and parents who are uninvolved/removed from their children’s lives. Children in sole custody settings have notably (about three times) higher likelihoods of suffering from low self-esteem, insecurity and rejection, being underachievers (including school dropouts), substance abuse, depression, suicide, teen pregnancy, and even crime. Eighty percent of criminals are from single parent homes. In an attempt to address the problems sighted above, in 1998, a federal Joint House-Senate Committee presented to Parliament a report, For the Sake of the Children. It proposed a more prescriptive approach to parenting after divorce, including an equal shared parenting presumption for good parents, instead of the current system, that, in most cases, awards primary custody to the mother unless the specific circumstances of the family make that impossible. The bill that’s currently before Parliament is wholly aligned with the recommendations of this report.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:38:14 +0000

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