CINCINNATI (Sheila Gray) — No divorce is easy when children are involved.
The newest study involving 150,000 children shows they need to spend time living with both parents. Navigating divorce is hardly ever a smooth ride. The road got especially bumpy for Alex Trinidad when he didn’t get time with his three children. “It’s like a part of you is missing because that’s what your children are. They are part of you,” said Alex.
SIOUX CITY, IA –Navigating divorce is hardly ever a smooth ride.
The road got especially bumpy for Alex Trinidad when he didn’t get time with his three children.
Think kids with divorced parents are stressed out from going back and forth between parents?
Some surprising new info on what works in my Family 411 report.
No divorce is easy when kids are involved, but the newest study involving 150-thousand children, shows they need to spend time living with both parents.
Divorce in the best of circumstances remains a painfully emotional ordeal. That only intensifies when the settlement involves the welfare of children involved in the breakup.
Traditionally, wives usually retain primary custody rights, relegating husbands to the role of occasional parent.
With few modifications, that’s still the guideline judges use when determining what’s in a child’s best interests. Perhaps that made sense back in the days of Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best, when television depicted the ideal family as the husband provider and the impeccable homemaker wife.
Those days, for the most part, no longer exist. In today’s economy, it usually takes a working couple to make ends meet.
And in the case of those families fortunate enough to live on one salary, that increasingly involves the wife as primary breadwinner. Stay-at-home-dads aren’t some sociological fad. They’re an acknowledged part of the modern family.
Times change, and so should our state’s outdated child-custody laws.
LOWELL — It has been more than a decade since Shawn Gillespie’s acrimonious divorce turned into a custody battle that drained him mentally, physically and financially.
After only a year of marriage and one son, Gillespie and his wife split in 2002, triggering a downhill spiral that forced him to spend thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees and court costs, and lost time at work, in a battle for visitation rights to see his son.
“I had the fight of my life,” said the 51-year-old truck driver from Lowell.
Christian Paasch, National Parents Organization of Virginia, joins Steve Batton to discuss child custody and child support in Virginia
Don Hubin, of the National Parents Organization, says shared parenting makes for more well-rounded kids of both sexes.
“What’s most important is promoting a kind of work life balance in children that we’re seeing more younger people move toward,” said Hubin. View TV news interview
New information on how daughters benefit from having working moms. View TV news interview
Three-quarters of American moms who have children at home are working mothers. A recent study shows that’s really good for daughters when it comes to education and earnings.
However, it does mean some trade-offs for both moms and dads. View TV news interview