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Paternal custody


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    • Father sole custody
    • Paternal sole custody
    • Sole custody, Paternal
    • Sole paternal custody
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    • found: Work cat.: Pieterse, J.T. The pursuit of paternal custody, 2002:PDF p. 2 (divorcing fathers who want custody of their children) p. 3 (fathers pursuing custody of their children)
    • found: Spiro, R. From parents' rights to the best interests of children : American child custody in historical and feminist perspective, 1750-1899, summary viewed via WWW, May 5, 2006(The law of child custody in the United States has evolved from paternal custody, through maternal custody, to a gender-neutral evaluation of the best interests of children.)
    • found: Autar, R. Shared physical custody references, via WWW, May 5, 2006(intact families vs. joint custody and single custody families; children from all four groups (intact families, sole maternal, sole paternal, joint custody) were found to be equally well adjusted; sole custodial homes (both maternal and paternal); sole paternal custody)
    • found: Comerford, L. Co-custody may have unintended results, via WWW, May 5, 2006(Between 1880 and 1925, the language of judicial decisions shifted from calling upon God, Nature, and Reason to support paternal custody to favoring maternal custody of children of "tenderyears.")
    • found: Moyer, S. Child custody arrangements : their characteristics and outcomes, 2004, via Canada Dept. of Justice Web site, May 5, 2006:exec. summ. (boys more likely to be in shared and sole paternal custody situations; compared to sole maternal custody, sole paternal and shared custody arrangements appear to be vulnerable to change over time, typically to maternal custody with visitation by the father) sec. 4.2.2 (fathers with sole custody) sec. 4.2.3 (father sole custody)
    • found: Stewart, R. The early identification and streaming of cases of high conflict separation and divorce, 2001, via Canada Dept. of Justice Web site, May 5, 2006:PDF p. 7 (paternal sole custody arrangements)
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    • 2006-09-21: new
    • 2006-09-22: revised
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