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CHILDREN ARE HURT BY MINNESOTA FAMILY LAW
Minnesota's antiquated child custody laws need to be changed. We currently have a system of sole physical custody. This means it is presumed that there has to be a winner and a loser in divorce and custody battles. Sadly, children and fathers are typically the losers. In Minnesota, mothers were awarded sole physical custody 94% of the time, with fathers receiving sole physical custody 6% of the time. Unmarried fathers are presumed to have no rights to their children and must file a lawsuit in court if they want to try to get any rights to parent them.
“There is a fundamental liberty right guaranteed to both parents by the 14th Amendment to the care, custody, and nurture of their children. According to the US Supreme Court: “Absent a Compelling State Interest of harm or potential harm to the child, the State may not intervene in the privacy of family life.””
Overall, research studies show that children of joint custodians are better adjusted than children of sole custodians on each of the following measures: general adjustment; family relations; self-esteem; emotional adjustment; behavioral adjustment; and divorce-specific adjustment.
Joint Physical Custody improves child support compliance. Researchers have found a positive correlation between the frequency of a parent's contact with a child and the payment of child support. Fathers who have little or no contact with their children after a divorce pay only about 34% of their child support, while fathers with regular contact pay 85% or more of theirs.
THE REMOVAL OF A FIT, LOVING PARENT FROM A CHILD IS CHILD ABUSE. Let's work together to stop the abuse.