Child custody
Sir,—l strongly disagree with Messrs Scott and Burson that joint custody is a childorientated step. Rather, it is orientated toward cruelly preserving the ghosts of broken marriages. People don’t gel divorced for a joke, but often
just because there is bitter disagreement over the handling of the children. There is no mystical potency in two fettered parents being involved in the care of their children. All that is needed from the child’s point of view is one loving, caring and reliable person with a supportive grouping of other adults and children. The child custody solution must come not from pseudoliberal legalists but from young people seeing modern marriage and the nuclear family as the trap it is for most of us, and working out more flexible alternatives.—Yours, etc., B. P. LILBURN. April 27, 1981.
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