Psychological abuse is proof that joint custody should be denied. This is an effective tactic used to confuse judges who cannot distinguish between truly menacing verbal behavior and harmless verbal expressions of anger which flow both ways in marital discord. Psychological abuse has been elevated to the same level as physical abuse. The mother should get custody because she has more experience raising the children. Both roles must be fulfilled and neither role should be denigrated.
Joint custody is hard on the children when they have to move from one parent's home to another.
No evidence is brought to bear on this situation and indeed ample evidence exists to support the alternate conclusion that developmental capabilities of even young children enable them to make healthy transitions from one environment to another - as in home to day care, home to baby sitters and grandparents. The failure of marriage in American culture is largely the outcome of low wages, unemployment and general economic difficulties. The depression of 1932-33 had the lowest rate of divorce and the highest rate in the 1980's during the period of economic achievement.