Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic For book Parenting after divorce.In this research Nielsen addresses the concern that policy makers experience in deciding about the best possible way

Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic For book Parenting after divorce.

In this research Nielsen addresses the concern that policy makers experience in deciding about the best possible way of parenting that divorce parents should use after their marriages have come to an end (Nielsen 590). The researcher even addresses the issue of the amount of time that children of divorced parents should spend with either of their parents. The researcher concludes that the best upbringing of children of divorced parents takes place when both of the parents share the same residence and the quality of parenting in such households is better than the quality of parenting that takes place when both mother and father live in separate households.

In this research Parkinson et al. tried to figure out the perception of the adolescents regarding the parenting arrangement fairness, division of assets and support of child after the breakup of their parents (Parkinson 1). Those surveyed responded that they missed those parents whom they did not live with and were frustrated about it. Their perception regarding fairness of parenting arrangements is dependent on the amount of their own participation in this decision. The researcher even figured out that when their parents marry a new partner, they should treat their children from other spouses and children from new spouses in an equal manner.

In this research Smyth figured out that there are five ways in which a father and a child contact each other after a divorce has taken place (Smyth, 2004, p.23). The first pattern is shared care in which the child is cared for on a 50 to 50 percent basis. Another form of care in separated households was little care or no care at all in which fathers complained that they were not given a chance to care for their children. The third kind of care was holiday only contact in which the father had the child’s custody on only holidays. The fourth kind was daytime only contact and the last kind of contact was standard contact in