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About Shared Parenting
"The term "shared parenting, refers to a post-divorce parenting
arrangement that attempts to approximate the parent-child
relationships in the original two-parent home,
in which both parents have not only equal rights and responsibilities for
their children's welfare and upbringing but have an active role to play in
the daily routines of their children's care and development, and in which
each other remain salient attachment figures in their children's lives.
As the living arrangement that most closely resembles the pre-divorce
family in cases where both parents had an active parenting role before
divorce, shared parenting encompasses both shared physical caretaking
(the actual day-to-day care of children) and equal authority regarding
children's education, medical care, and religious upbringing."
Kruk, Edward, Ph.D