Summary of Wisconsin's Equal Shared Parenting Bill. To view the formatted PDF files use a reader like Adobe Acrobat Reader. Equal shared parenting, by minimizing child custody disputes, would dramatically lower both public and private expenditures on divorce.
Single parents have higher child abuse rates than couples who share child rearing responsibilities.
According to a research project conducted by an Arizona court service when two highly-conflictual parents were forced to share the child, parental conflict decreased. Equal Shared Parenting will allow child rearing responsibilities to be shared and virtually eliminate the unwanted child loss that angers many loving parents. Fatherlessness is the single best predictor whether or not a child will turn to crime as an adult. When fathers share in rearing their children, antisocial behavior is minimized. Elementary school children reared without fathers have to repeat grades at rate two times higher than children reared by both biological parents.