Thursday, May 10, 2012

Victory in Minnesota!

Victory in Minnesota! « Fathers & Families:

At the 11th hour, the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill requiring the presumption of shared parenting with minimum parenting time for each parent of 35%.  That 35% falls short of the House bill that provides for a minimum of 45% parenting time for each parent.  But opposition to that remaining 10% was unexpectedly intense in the Senate, forcing proponents of equal parenting to retrench.  Some 70% of senators ended up voting for the watered-down bill.


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2 comments:

  1. Lets do the math... If the "minimum parenting time for each parent is now 35%", and 35 x 2 = 70%. Who parents them the other 30% of the time?

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  2. From what I read, I believe they have to agree on the other 30%.

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