Public Affairs

An early 2019 research study carried by William V. Fabricius from the Arizona State University concludes that "From all the perspectives examined, the evidence suggests that a legal presumption for equal parenting time is in children’s best interests".

The findings say that children's emotional stability is enhanced both in low and high conflict families. The study further concludes that as good fathers are often unable to self-select equal parenting, they rely on family courts. This is an important evaluation of available evidence, based significantly on evidence from Arizona, where an equal parenting law was passed in 2013 and a Canadian study of cases with high parent conflict. 

Shared parenting enhances children's wellbeing. We need this to be supported with a strategy for separated families, as suggested at our conference this November.