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The Working Mom and Custody Issues
| Mon, 11-30-2009 - 8:24pm |
There was an article in this month's Working mother magazine about wrking mom's losing custody to SAHD's.

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Parenting is more complex than that. Determining if there is one primary caregiver is usually not that complex though. The issue comes when people assign different meaning to being a primary caregiver.
Ten Rules for Being Human
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By contrast, I'd struggle to give you a long list of things my dad taught me. How to ride a bike. How to draw a figure eight without lifting my pen off the page. Most of everything else falls in the realm of "taught me what not to do, leading by example." I can't remember what his voice sounded like, and all the memories are very old. I bet you could go on and on about your dad, whereas I could give you a run down of every last experience in fairly short order.
As you might imagine, there is a lack of time spent together driving that.
Ten Rules for Being Human
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
Of course, it's not limited to that. Which is why in a divorce or a separation they have two types of custody. One that pertains to decision making, one that pertains to a split of time.
Furthermore, you are never in a position to be raising your subordinates at work because they aren't your children. That's kind of a critical factor in whether you are raising someone, that they are in a position to be raised and you are in the role of a parent/legal guardian. You cannot raise someone without spending time with them, but spending time with someone does not constitute raising them.
Ten Rules for Being Human
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
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"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
Really? Literally an arm and a leg? Which ones did they want; the right or the left?
"Literally: I do not think that word means what you think it means."
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"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
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Are the only types of activities in this middle/high school supervised activities?
PumpkinAngel
There are lots of after school activities, but they're all supervised. There aren't any after school sports or games. It's an arts magnet school.
There are many performances, but those take place in the evening, so parents have to bring kids back if they want to attend. I'm sure there are parents who drop kids off for shows and pick them up.
....this concept, of always have supervision for any activity for this age of students (12-18 years old) on school grounds is a bit foreign to me.
PumpkinAngel
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