Divorce doesn't have to be a catastrophe for children. For
all of the suffering and cruelty endemic to our current,
sole custody/winner take-all system, there are millions of
mothers and fathers who co-parent after divorce. They
understand that the best
parent is both parents.
On Mother's Day His
Side saluted mothers who co-parent and respect
and promote the bonds between their children and their
ex-husbands after divorce or separation. We also
discussed the holy grail of the fathers' rights
movement--the
rebuttable presumption of joint physical custody after
divorce.
David Levy
is the president of the
Children's Rights Council, a Washington, DC based
nonprofit dedicated to assuring a child the right to two
parents, regardless of the parents' marital status. Rachel
Forrest is a shared parenting activist with
Fathers &Families and a living example of why
co-parenting is best.
David and Rachel joined Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks.
To learn more about the benefits of co-parenting, see the
Children's Rights Council's information on the
latest
joint custody research,
Custody Statistics, and on the
research which shows that states with more joint custody
have less divorce on average.
To learn more about the rebuttable presumption of joint
custody, see Wendy McElroy's
In the Best Interest of the Children (7/1/03).