To achieve either an "option for" or a "presumption of" gender equality - genuine shared custody - where each parent has near equal time with their child. Its purpose is to find people who wish to help reform Georgia child custody laws and child support and to achieve either an *option for* or a *presumption of* gender equality - genuine shared custody - where each parent has near equal time with
and responsibilities for the child or children. Shared parenting has proven to to have better results and protect the rights of all. This page was created to enlighten, encourage, and to inform. How fathers influence our relationships. To have an influence on or cause a change in one as well as having the power to produce an outcome or achieve a result. Your child’s primary relationship with his/her father can affect all of your child’s relationships from birth to death, including those with friends, lovers, and spouses. Those early patterns of interaction with father are the very patterns that will be projected forward into all relationships...forever more: not only your child’s intrinsic idea of who he/she is as he/she relates to others, but also, the range of what your child considers acceptable and loving. Girls will look for men who hold the patterns of good old dad, for after all, they know how “to do that.” Therefore, if father was kind, loving, and gentle, they will reach for those characteristics in men. Girls will look for, in others, what they have experienced and become familiar with in childhood. Because they’ve gotten used to those familial and historic behavioral patterns, they think that they can handle them in relationships. Boys on the other hand, will model themselves after their fathers. They will look for their father’s approval in everything they do, and copy those behaviors that they recognize as both successful and familiar. Thus, if dad was abusive, controlling, and dominating, those will be the patterns that their sons will imitate and emulate. However, if father is loving, kind, supportive, and protective, boys will want to be that. Human beings are social animals and we learn by modeling behavior. In fact, all primates learn how to survive and function successfully in the world through social imitation. Those early patterns of interaction are all children know, and it is those patterns that effect how they feel about themselves, and how they develop. Your child is vulnerable to those early patterns and incorporates those behavioral qualities in his/her repertoire of social exchange. It is impossible to under-estimate the importance of dad.
