NV: Senate Bill 109 - Putting parents on equal ground

April 02, 2005

Letter: Putting parents on equal ground
LAS VEGAS SUN

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...518542259.html

April 2 - 3, 2005

Senate Bill 109, if passed into law, would place both parents on equal
ground after a divorce. Arguments against the bill are weak. To state that
equal rights for both parents, and equal rights for children to both
parents, will cause more domestic violence is hogwash.

Once most people are treated fairly, they tend to get on with life and learn
to co- parent. In fact, eliminating children from one parent's life actually
drives most people crazy.

Not passing this bill would accomplish a few things for sure. It would keep
money flowing from families to divorce attorneys and court-appointed
psychologists. The dysfunction in our society would certainly continue and
worsen.

Today both parents typically are working trying to maintain two households.
Children are often latchkey residents and are raised more by babysitters and
peers than parents.

Once the financial incentives are removed, parents may not be so impulsive
to divorce. If a parent knows that they will not have total control over the
children and a paycheck, they might think twice before divorcing.

Furthermore, if parents understand that in spite of not sleeping in the same
bed and residing in the same home, that they must raise their children
cooperatively, then the end of the lucrative divorce industry may begin.
This will stop the never-ending expansion of the Family Court bureaucracy
and the increasing wealth of divorce attorneys. Instead, by avoiding
protracted litigation and preferential treatment to one parent over another,
families and children will begin to benefit.

ALAN R. DICICCO

Editor's note: The writer is founder and president of the Coalition for
Family Court Reform.


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