Resolving Child Custody Disputes
Without a doubt, child custody is the biggest concern during any divorce. Children are a couple's most significant asset whether they realize it or not. Studies have shown that children do much better when both parents are active in their lives. Sadly, the divorce process and poor relationships have a way of blurring the line of priorities.
With negative emotions aimed at each other, parents can easily end up battling it out in child custody disputes that have the potential to end badly.
The statistics speak for themselves:
· According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, sixty-three percent of youth suicides are among children from fatherless homes.
According to the USDHS more than seventy percent of teenage mothers also come from homes without fathers.
· An astounding ninety percent of all runaway or homeless children come from fatherless homes.
· According to the United States Department of Justice, seventy percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes.
· The Center For Disease Control reports that eighty-five percent of all children from fatherless homes exhibit behavioral disorders.
The danger does not end with missing fathers. Each parent is important. According to several reports, even when a child has one parent in his or her life, their odds of living a successful life are diminished.
Based on information provided by the Journal of Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in a study of more than one-hundred and fifty adolescent twenty-six of those adolescents friends were suicide victims who were teens living with a single parent home and are more likely to attempt suicide and to suffer from disorders of a psychological nature versus there counterparts who reside in complete homes.
· The USDHS determined through a National Center for Health Statistics Survey that fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide.
"Three out of four teenage suicides occur in households where a parent has been absent," Jean Beth Eshtain author of "Family Matters: The Plight of America's Children" said."
Understanding child custody and divorce appropriately is necessary for your child's future outlook. Unfortunately child custody disputes are expensive for everyone involved. There are several tools available to assist in lowering the burden of that expense. Some experts offer child custody strategy packages that contains more than twelve hundred pages of vital information to assist with you dispute.
By using a tool such as this, a person has the ability to not only save cash but also simplify the ins and outs of child custody. A package typically costs less than one-hundred dollars, which is far less than the attorney fees one might rack up without it.
Don't forget, kids love their mother and father. Moreover, to prevent a child from having a relationship with either parent is child abuse and potentially deadly.