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Equal Shared Parenting – Thought of the Day Issue #7: July 5, 2018 What is this?: The Gene C. Colman “Equal Shared Parenting – Thought of the Day” is sent two times each week to recipients who are hopefully interested in this topic. How to cancel : If you have received this “Thought of the Day” and do not want such messages, please unsubscribe below. You have the option to continue to receive our other monthly Newsletter publication and not this “Thought of the Day”; or, you can cancel both. (I certainly do not want to intrude on your valuable time and I want only interested people to receive my emails. I apologize in advance if I have bothered you.) Welcome: For those of you who want to receive some informative and inspirational thoughts on one of the most important family law topics of our day, then welcome. I hope that you will be educated, inspired, and even motivated to take action to advance the cause of Equal Shared Parenting. If you have a comment, feel free to click here and I’ll post some of the comments either at my blog or atmy website. Better relationships with each parent = better outcomes. In sum, neither family income nor parental conflict can account for JPC children having better outcomes than SPC children. This might largely be explained by the fact that the quality of children’s relationships with each parent often effects how well children fare in JPC or in SPC (for a review of these studies, see Mahrer, O’Hara, Sandler, & Wolchik, 2018, in press). Further analyses of the JPC and SPC studies show thatchildren’s outcomes are effected not only by the quality of their relationships with their parents, but by the child’s gender (Nielsen, 2018, in press). In other words, the reason why JPC children have better outcomes independent of family income and parental conflict may be because they have better relationships with each parent, which, in turn, may override the importance of family income and the amount of conflict or cooperation between the parents. Linda Nielsen (2018): Joint versus sole physical custody: Outcomes for children independent of family income or parental conflict, Journal of Child Custody, DOI: 10.1080/15379418.2017.1422414, at page 15. Sincerely, Gene C. Colman Gene C. Colman Family Law Centre https://www.complexfamilylaw.com Email: gene@complexfamilylaw.com Phone: 416-635-9264, Ext. 101 25 Bowring Walk Toronto, Ontario M3H 5Z8 ‌