Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.
Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters.
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.
Men should have more time with their newborn babies.
Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.
