Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Reform of Family Law System: Discussion (Resumed)
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source
On shared parenting arrangements, the figures for the number of children who end up in shared parenting situations are shocking. Is this a practical decision on the part of the courts because, say, one parent lives in a big house with the children and the other lives in a one-bedroom flat because of our commodification of housing in this State? Do middle-class families fare any better in the 50:50 parenting arrangements? Is it a cultural problem in this situation? Why, in a post-separation era, do we not have more 50:50 parenting arrangements? I accept it cannot be divorced from the economic situation either.
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