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When parents separate there may be considerable advantage in formally agreeing how they will deal with the children. A parenting plan is a document which sets out the main issues in detail. Typically a parenting plan would include a contact schedule, the agreed positions in respect of contentious issues (i.e. health & safety, education and religion etc.), and specify how the plan would be updated. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3000x3002, 6358 KB) The Blue Marble: This photo is of Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula as taken en route to the Moon by Apollo 17s Harrison Schmitt on December 7, 1972. ...

Governments have a clear interest in ensuring that disputes between parents do not spill over into the family courts. One way of doing this is through the encouragement of parenting plans. Some family courts now require a plan to be drawn up when there has been a history of avoidable litigation on custody matters.

The Parenting Plan is a leaflet published by the UK's Lord Chancellor's Department and now carried on by the Department for Constitutional Affairs intended to be useful to parents involved in divorce or separation.

See also

• contact centre
• divorce
• fathers' rights
• shared parenting
• shared residency

In the context of child welfare, a contact centre is a supervised venue that exists to support and promote contact between parents, grandparents, guardians and children that do not live together. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custody... The Fathers rights movement is a loose network of interest groups, primarily in western countries, established to campaign for equal treatment by the courts in family law issues such as child custody after divorce, child support, and paternity determinations. ... Shared parenting is the common term used to describe a family arrangement after separation or divorce, in which the care of the children is substantially shared between the biological father and mother, leading to a situation where the child knows that both his or her parents are involved in their... Shared residency, or joint residency, refers to the situation where the child of parents who have divorced or separated resides with each parent at different times, and each parent has equal status in law. ...

External links

• www.OurFamilyWizard.com - Tools to help divorced parents share information, schedules and expenses
• Dr. Stephen Baskerville, ACFC President (Insightful writings on divorce industry's affects on shared parenting)
• The Plan itself
• Court-Approved Parenting Plans
• Shared Parenting Information Group
• Shared Parenting Tool for Non-Custodial Parents
• Shared parenting tips
• Shared Parenting Plans and Information
• SPIG Parenting Plans
• Mediation support in developing a parenting plan or resolving contentious divorce issues
• Feminist4Fathers - "Equal means equal. How hard is that to understand?"
• Shared Parenting Works
• Stop the War on Fathers and Children