Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Basics of Shared Parenting


What is shared parenting?
Shared parenting is a method of parenting that allows both parents the chance to actively parent their child.
More and more parents are moving away from the "traditional" custody agreements that consist of a custodial and a non-custodial parent.
Every other weekend parents and "Disneyland Dads" are becoming less common as more parents are realizing that parenting is not only a right, it is a responsibility, and it is important for children to have BOTH parents as active participants in their lives.
In a shared or joint custody agreement, both parents have physical custody (parenting time) with their child and both spend ample amounts of time with them.
When parents share custody, each parent will usually have the child at least 30% of the time and some parents opt to split the child's time as evenly as possible.
Both parents are also responsible for making the important decisions in the child's life.

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