Teens With Shared Parenting Have Their Say
In this Contra Costa Times article Separated But Equal McVal Osborne interviewed local teens whose parents chose collaborative divorce and/or shared parenting. Osborne is a junior at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek [California] and a member of the Times’ Life in Perspective, a board made up of local high school journalists.
Says Michael Saarela, a junior who rotates weekly among three households, his mother’s, his stepmother’s, and his father’s:
“I feel that kids who go through divorce are more vivacious and vibrant. I’ve been moving from house to house all my life and it’s taught me a lot. It’s taught me how to be patient.â€
Sydney Koliha, a junior who transfers weekly from Walnut Creek to Berkeley and back says:Â continued…
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I'm a sun and nature loving, 50-something, laid back, forward thinking, liberal anti-feminist egalitarian, san francisco bay area native, single mom of 4 and yia yia to 2. I've been active in the equal parenting movement since 2002. Known as the purple Queen of Equality, I once blogged as the Feminist4Fathers. Find me now on sharedparentingworks.org and jugsforjustice.org. | More from Teri Stoddard
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November 8th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Unfortunately the shared parenting initiative in North Dakota is losing.
We somehow did not make the case for shared parenting with enough voters there.