Exactly. You don't have to be married to accomplish what you have described.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Casey Dougall <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > 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:319232 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
