"The term "shared parenting, refers to a post-divorce parenting arrangement that attempts to approximate the parent-child relationships in the original two-parent home, in which both parents have not only equal rights and responsibilities for their children's welfare and upbringing but have an active role to play in the daily routines of their children's care and development, and in which each other remain salient attachment figures in their children's lives. As the living arrangement that most closely resembles the pre-divorce family in cases where both parents had an active parenting role before divorce, shared parenting encompasses both shared physical caretaking (the actual day-to-day care of children) and equal authority regarding children's education, medical care, and religious upbringing." Kruk, Edward, Ph.D "Although the dispute is symbolized by a 'versus' which signifies two adverse parties at opposite poles of a line, there is in fact a third party whose interests and rights make of the line a triangle. That person, the child who is not an official party to the lawsuit but whose well-being is in the eye of the controversy, has a right to shared parenting when both are equally suited to provide it. Inherent in the express public policy is a recognition of the child's right to equal access and opportunity with both parents, the right to be guided and nurtured by both parents, the right to have major decisions made by the application of both parents' wisdom, judgment and experience. The child does not forfeit these rights when the parents divorce." --Presiding Judge Dorothy T. Beasley,