In the best interests of our children, or, is it now???  After we’re, divorces, let’s, get into it, in court, and yeah, you’ll be hearing from MY lawyer!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

How do we decide, what’s in the “best interests of the underage children” had always been a difficult question to answer correctly.  Based off of the old societal rights 1089, it’d mandated that the paternal rights come first, so most of the right to custody went to the fathers of the children, and, the law was declared unconstitutional back in 1994 by the grand justice, and in 1996, the legislative department passed the amendments, with the specifications of “the best interest of the child”.

At first in the cases, the courts normally gave the right of custody to the mother using the children are best raised by the mothers, and this had gained a ton of criticism, for instance, the beliefs of how men can’t take care of children is strictly biased, and that it may deepen the sexist stereotypes.  And, to avoid running into the matters of faults from the previous, the courts started using the principles of “shared custody”, “primary caretaker”, continuation of care (with the least alters) as the principles, and, it may have covered every aspect, but, it’s quite, confusing, and, in the cases of custodies, these rules may cause the courts to miss the point, to have troubles giving the custody to a particular parent, with the lacks of safety and security of life to the child.

Thus, the Family Matter Laws passed in 2012, giving a larger investigation means to the courts, using the parental education means, counseling, and the processes of legal guardians, also, considering the wishes of children who were still minors, the scholars stated that because of these, the family court justices became the mediators to assign the resources, that the justices should help the individuals, to rebuild their families back up.  and, because of how there’d been incidence of parents kidnapping the children due to not wanting to give up custody, there’s the amendment of “the parents’ infringements of the rights of another party’s attempts to fulfill the rights of the minor children”, to prevent the parents from getting their kids first so they can have the sole custodies.

uh, can someone say…”collateral damage” here???

who would you chose, little one??? photo from online

The professors of N.T.U, and Taiwan University of Education confirmed from the analysis of the data they’d collected, that the courts used the three primary keys of “primary caretaker of the children” and “the children’s will”, “parent-child interactions” as determinants of custody, which showed, that the courts had become, in synch.  And, the cores of the family courts went from checking the facts, to becoming more of a mediating means, to see if the parents are willing to work together, for the benefits of their own young, after all, children are NOT a prize to be won, and, the paternity suits should never be an all-win/all-lose situation.

From the singer, Wang and his wife Lee’s divorce to custody, and the more recent, Italian merchant fighting over custody of children with the flight attendant, Jeng, everybody feels bad, for the children who got, caught up in the middle of these divorces.  The line from the movie, “Marriage Story”, “the criminal lawyers see the good side of bad guys, the divorce attorneys see the ugly sides of good people”; the parents who are divorced should contemplate again, and again, and again; the kids’ needs and wants aren’t, necessarily the same, or maybe, the complete tolerances the two of you show toward each other, that love you still show your own young, may be, the only answer to help your children grow up as best as they possibly can.

And so, it normally becomes a he-say/she-say, on the matter of custody, in the best interest of the child, especially if you’re, just right after your divorces, and still angered toward one another, for whatever mistakes you two had made in your marriages, you’d easily, scapegoat onto your own children, and they are, at this time, in need of their parents, the most, but hey, the two of you adults are too busy, going after one another’s throats, fighting in court, having your children choose in front of the judge, the jury (and they’re all getting, executed by you!), who they want to live with, who they like best, mommy, or daddy!