“Consider this, a sadly typical scenario: Monday evening, Jordan goes to bed with hugs and kisses from two loving parents. Later, unknown to Jordan, the parents agree that they can no longer live together, and they separate. Tuesday morning, Jordan is greeted and sent off to school by only one of them, and only one is there in the evening to serve dinner and put Jordan to bed. Jordan is told that the other will visit in a few days, or maybe a week.”

“Jordan’s need for the love and care of both parents didn’t change overnight. If Jordan can’t continue to live with both parents, why not make the best of an already traumatic situation and keep both of them in Jordan’s life to the fullest extent possible?”

 

Read the rest of this op-Ed from my co-chair if the New York Affiliate of the National Parents Organization – Josh Blumenthal

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-new-yorks-a-disaster-for-shared-parenting-20190920-g2xrnnove5az7pfs4f3yb67nga-story.html