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- April 1, 2019-Research in Sweden Demonstrates Benefits of ESP
- April 12, 2022 - Shared Parenting The New Normal And Tactical Onus Requires The One Opposing To Rebut; Marginal Note And Maximum Contact
- April 19, 2022 - NO ASSUMPTION, NO PRESUMPTIONS
- April 26, 2022 - IT’S NOT A PRIZE!
- April 5, 2022 - Most Common Parenting Arrangement In Some Circumstances
- April 8, 2019 - Shared Parenting In Belgium
- Aug. 13, 2018-Violence and abuse could rebut a presumption for equal shared parenting
- Aug. 16, 2018-Shared Parenting might create an incentive for parental cooperation
- Aug. 2, 2018-Children in shared care homes fare better than others.
- Aug. 20, 2018-Shared Parenting ameliorates harmful effects of high conflict
- Aug. 23, 2018-Debunking the arguments against rebuttable presumption for equal shared parenting
- Aug. 27, 2018-Advantages of Equal Shared Parenting summed up
- Aug. 30, 2018-There are precedents for Equal Shared Parenting.
- Aug. 6, 2018-Performing a parentectomy causes harm to kids
- Aug. 9, 2018-Mothers have not necessarily been the only primary caregivers before divorce
- Dec. 10, 2018-Colman speaks to the House of Commons Justice Committee, Excerpt #3
- Dec. 3, 2018-Colman speaks to the House of Commons Justice Committee, Excerpt #1
- Dec. 6, 2018-Colman speaks to the House of Commons Justice Committee, Excerpt #2
- Feb. 11, 2019-Myths v. Facts #8
- Feb. 14, 2019-Myths v. Facts #9
- Feb. 18, 2019-Myths v. Facts #10 & #11
- Feb. 21, 2019-Should Canada Adopt an Equal Parenting Presumption?
- Feb. 25, 2019-Myths v. Facts #12
- Feb. 28, 2019-Importance of Maximum Contact Principle
- Feb. 4, 2019-Myths v. Facts #6
- Feb. 7, 2019-Myths v. Facts #7
- February 10, 2020 - CHILD CUSTODY AND ACCESS: INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD ACCESS
- February 24, 2020 - EQUAL SHARED PARENTING - THE WINDS OF CHANGE
- February 3, 2020 - EQUAL SHARED PARENTING - CHILD CUSTODY INTERIM MOTION
- February 9, 2021 - Amazing ESP Stats!
- Jan. 10, 2019-Prof. Sanford Braver Responds #2
- Jan. 14, 2019-Myths v. Facts - Introduction and Summary
- Jan. 17, 2019-Myths v. Facts #1
- Jan. 21, 2019-Myths v. Facts #2
- Jan. 24, 2019-Myths v. Facts #3
- Jan. 29, 2019-Myths v. Facts #4
- Jan. 31, 2019-Myths v. Facts #5
- Jan. 7, 2019-Prof. Sanford Braver Responds
- January 13, 2020 - Summary of research about special needs children
- January 20, 2020 - Conference Conclusions 2018
- January 27, 2020 - Do children really benefit from shared parenting after divorce? The experts say yes: over 50 recent studies have demonstrated this.
- January 6, 2020 - Joint physical custody for young children and parents’ views
- July 12, 2018-Cooperation and Low Conflict do not equate to better outcomes for Joint Physical Custody children
- July 16, 2018 -Don’t “woozle” your data! Those opposed to Joint Custody tend to misreport their data
- July 19, 2018-There is a danger with many of the studies where the researchers rely only on the mothers’ reports and ignore the fathers’ points of view
- July 2, 2018 - Joint physical custody kids simply have better outcomes
- July 23, 2018-Joint Physical Custody kids have better outcomes in the area of parental relationships
- July 26, 2018-Joint custody is subject to greater scrutiny than other modalities
- July 30, 2018-The conceptual arguments that have opposed equal shared parenting have transformed over time
- July 5, 2018 - Better relationships with each parent = better outcomes
- July 9, 2018-Misreporting studies’ conclusions is a favourite tactic of those opposed to Joint Custody
- June 13, 2018 - Headnote
- June 18, 2018 - Brian Ludmer sums it all up
- June 21, 2018 - Joint Custody does not expose kids to higher conflict levels
- June 22, 2021 - CBA endorses rebuttable presumption!
- June 25, 2018 - Even grandchildren benefit from Joint Physical Custody
- June 25, 2021 - Fatherlessness may have led to London tragedy
- June 28, 2018 - Joint Physical Custody bodes well for relationships with grandparents
- March 11, 2019-Kentucky Enacts Equal Shared Parenting Rebuttable Presumption
- March 14, 2019-It's Not About the Money
- March 16, 2020 - Without joint custody, children are the biggest losers
- March 18, 2019-Forceful Criticism of Prof. Jennifer McIntosh's Work
- March 2, 2020 - scholarship from Dr. Rachel Birnbaum and Prof. Nick Bala
- March 21, 2019-Can ESP Work Only When the Parents Are Not in Conflict?
- March 23, 2020 - rare opportunity and privilege to hear one of the leading thinkers in Equal Shared Parenting
- March 25, 2019-How We Define "Best Interests of the Child" is All Important
- March 28, 2019-Benefits of Shared Parenting Can No Longer Be Doubted
- March 4, 2019-Defining Your Terms
- March 7, 2019-Defining Your Terms
- May 24, 2021 - Groundbreaking ESP Study!
- May 3, 2022 - BEHAVE BADLY AND YOU WON’T GET IT!
- Nov. 1, 2018-Preschool children living in joint physical custody arrangements show less psychological symptoms than those living mostly or only with one parent
- Nov. 12, 2018-Emotional security and mental health improves with increased father parenting time
- Nov. 15, 2018-More father parenting time mitigates the harm of parent conflict
- Nov. 19, 2018-Children of divorce with the best long-term relationships with both parents are those who had equal parenting time
- Nov. 22, 2018-Shared parenting benefits are not tied to those who simply agreed to the regime. The benefits are visible across the board, no matter how the parents came to such resolution.
- Nov. 26, 2018-Relocation studies demonstrate that lack of father contact hurts children
- Nov. 29, 2018-Social science evidence demonstrates that failure to have a rebuttable presumption of Equal Shared Parenting risks harm to children’s emotional security and hence to public health
- Nov. 5, 2018-ESP = Children’s emotional security is strengthened
- Nov. 8, 2018-Child should have as close to equal proportions of parenting time with both parents as is possible for that family
- Oct. 11, 2018-Empirically speaking, inter parental conflict in itself should not negate joint physical custody
- Oct. 15, 2018-Social and legal policy should discourage conflict, not encourage it.
- Oct. 18, 2018-Barbara Kay supports equal shared parenting rebuttable presumption
- Oct. 22, 2018-The case for frequent overnight access has been scientifically strengthened
- Oct. 25, 2018-One parent’s opposition to shared parenting and high conflict does not necessarily negate a shared parenting regime
- Oct. 29, 2018-Frequency of overnight parenting time for infants and toddlers correlates with better outcomes later in life
- Oct. 3, 2018-Infants and toddlers clearly benefit from father involvement.
- Oct. 8, 2018-Researchers who advocate for blanket restriction on father contact with infants and toddlers use invalid methodologies and distort their own data. Here are just some examples from Dr. Warshak’s 2017 paper:
- Sept. 12, 2018-Equal Parenting Time became Arizona’s starting point. This may have been due to educating judges with respect to the social science research which demonstrated the benefits to children
- Sept. 17, 2018-Equal Shared Parenting Time is not a contradiction to children’s best interests
- Sept. 20, 2018-The Dr. Richard Warshak study is likely the most significant and important analysis of the social science literature relating
- Sept. 26, 2018-Warshak’s 2014 article in favour of significant parenting time by both parents for all children, including infants and toddlers
- Sept. 3, 2018-Fabricius et al have published an important study that evaluates Arizona’s legislative amendments to parenting time regimes.
- Sept. 6, 2018-Arizona’s January 2013 Parenting Time Law Reform
- September 5, 2019 - Introduction: Following a hiatus since 8 April 2019, I am pleased to share with my readers important information out of Kentucky
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