Sharons comments are well articulated. However this is the same justification for the court system continuing to do business as usual in an age where we now have research proving the old assumptions about one home and one parent are not in the best interest of anyone but lawyers, mom, and the court.

Disagreement is by definition part of divorce. Shared parenting recognizes more than the finacial needs of a child to have a father involved. Give the father some balanced say. He will have a role and the decline in family will finally slow. Sorry the money trail to the states and the lawyers will slow on the process. Today we continue to pay for well articulated justification of a broken family law system.