Child custody

Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child. Following ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in most countries, terms such as "custody" and "access" or "visitation" have been superseded by the concepts of "residence" and "contact". Instead of a parent having "custody" of or "access" to a child, a child is now said to "reside" or have "contact" with a parent.

External links

• Hague Convention
• LII - US legal sources on Child Custody
• Feminist4Fathers - "Equal means equal. How hard is that to understand?"
• Shared Parenting Works
• http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/laenderinfos/konsulat/kindesentziehung_html A German site, but in English, on child abduction
• The American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC) -- Largest member supported shared parenting organization in the USA
• Child Custody Information -- Large archive of custody-related articles and information
• DADS in FAMILY COURT (US Case Law)
• Families Need Fathers The UK situation is not dissimilar to that in the US.
• www.ParentingTime.net Example of a custody tracking tool
• "Dad's House"Forum for Fathers separated from their Children (Ireland)

News articles

• A Newsday series: International Child Abductions