Sole custody harms children, report says

Last updated 2018 10 10

The Toronto Star
3 April 2009

Sole custody harms children, report says

Canadian judges rarely use voluntary arrangements in which kids live with each parent roughly equally

By Susan Pigg, Living Reporter

Family court judges are misguidedly harming children by granting sole custody to one parent – usually the mother – in bitter divorce battles, says a comprehensive new report.[*]

Too many children are being “robbed of the love of one parent” by a legal system that is out of touch with the needs of children and treats them like property to be won or lost, says Edward Kruk, an expert on child custody issues….(Full Story)

* Note by F4L:

The report by Edward Kruk, Ph.D.:

• Shared Parenting: Child Custody, Access, and Parental Responsibility
• More information by Edward Kruk at Fathers for Life

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See also:

• Flawless flawed — What about children?
• Family courts solve divorce applications backlog
• The Hate Mongers – Hatred spread through propaganda
• Taken into Custody – by Stephen Baskerville
• Canadian Child-Custody Information
• Joint Custody
• Custodial mother needs help
• Mother sues son she abandoned
• Divorce affects children negatively — Youth criminality
• Father custody: outcomes in children of divorce