On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > It benefits the child when both parents are still together...so that is > the > > only real benefit to staying married. > > I definitely agree that it HUGELY benefits the kids if the parents > stay together. But staying together has nothing to do with being > married. > > -Cameron > > I don't see how I could have benefited more by my parents staying together. They have always been involved in my life for better or worse. Being divorced didn't change this, they just needed to budget their time with me better. They both still came to baseball, lacrosse games etc. helped me with homework, took me camping, the list goes on ... While I lived with my mom, I still hung out with my dad a fair amount. Maybe that's why my scenario was fine, parents lived across town, I just jumped between the two when needed and could still get to school, practice, snowboarding etc. when needed . It's also the parents responsibility to be civilized about the other parent around their children, this means in private with the child as well. Having a dad bitch about the kids mom while they spend time together doesn't help the kid at all, same for the mother, as long as the father and mother are doing their fair share of raising the child, they will turn out just fine, and neither mother or father will be labeled "deadbeat". I can see where there are problems with this, and main reasoning, one parent decides to MOVE away from the area, this makes it extremely difficult to keep up your end in raising the child. They should actually make a law governing how far two parents can be from their kids, keeping both parents in the same area maybe up to 3 hours away would be simple enough for one to assist when the child needs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319231 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
