08/18/2022
- The studies prove that have better health & development when "they spend at least 35% time with each parent...they do better academically, socially, and psychologically." (click on the link for more in depth reporting)
So although every divorce is like a snowflake and thus different...as my dear friend and mentor Robert McFarland has repeated to me so many times over the years, for the vast middle/normal situations, generally speaking kids do better longterm when they have active and continual contact with both parents after a divorce.
If you want to dramatically limit custody to your soon to be ex-spouse, don't lash out at your or or the Judge when they prompt you for a detailed explanation of why this should happen and in the end advise or order differently. We all keep the as the focus of the parenting plan creation and since the evidence is clear that the more that kids see both parents, the more well-adjusted they become as adults, there needs to be reasons and evidence presented to create a parenting arrangement that limits this contact with one of the parents. This post is about the vast majority of divorces that involve two loving, capable parents who want to help nurture their children after a divorce, not the cases that warrant one parent having restricted rights due to drugs, alcohol, violence etc.
And that's the bottom line because says so and that's...err...I mean the research says so and that's the bottom line.
https://www.businessinsider.com/children-should-spend-time-with-each-parent-after-divorce-2017-5
