Shared Parenting is Best

My title sums up the view of many people in the fields of law and child psychology. In a family where a mother and father live together with they children, a child has equal access to both parents. Ideally, a child should be provided with the same in the event of a breakup. Ideal situations are not that common. Animosity between parents, drug abuse, anger management, long distance moves and any number of other things can be an impediment to maintaining an ideal situation for children.

Young parents need to be made aware of the potential cost to their child's psychological well being. That might encourage them to take the necessary steps to appraoch that ideal.