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In response to
"beats having two of them. -- nm"
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loosilu
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My experience with the domestic docket in court says otherwise. Unless the parent actually represents a serious physical threat to the child, the
Posted by
landbeck
Jan 13 '10, 03:23
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child will be in greater emotional peril being raised with only one parent in its life, especially if that one parent spends the child's life telling the child who the non-present parent was such an evil bastard.
Kids are tough, resilient, and smart, but they have a basic need to relate with their parents; they *need* permission from both parents to love the other one. They figure out on their own that their parents are jerks, their parents are evil, lazy, imperfect, whatever.
Kids who grow up with evil, lazy, stupid parents are quite likely to have problems. But kids who grow up missing one parent are *more* likely to have problems, and worse problems at that.
Please note; my observation is a generalization of the entire population of children, based on the experience I had watching families in court. There will of course be lots of exceptions.
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