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50-50 parenting still requires 100% from both parents

  • Writer: Alan Jacobs
    Alan Jacobs
  • Mar 3
  • 1 min read

Custody can be a loaded term, filled with implicit threats of loss — loss of control, loss of time, and loss of one’s children. Custody, both a legal and colloquial term, can render images of wailing children wrenched from the arms of panicking parents. In this excellent blog posting, Rachel Alexander writes that one of her tasks as a mediator is to challenge antiquated, draconian concepts of custody, and reimagine how divorcing parents can raise children together.

 
 
 

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