Co-parenting issues after a divorce

“Keep in mind that the two of you had these children together, and throughout the time that you and your spouse lived in the home together, you were alone with your children, your spouse was alone with your children; you took the children on activities and had duties and obligations with them, as did your spouse. And now that you’re getting a divorce and there are adult issues involved is no reason to exclude the other parent from parenting. It simply doesn’t make logical sense that if your spouse used to go to extracurricular activities with your child or had your child overnight or for a weekend that now suddenly, because adult issues have warranted the filing of a divorce, that you exclude that parent from any activity with your child or, heaven forbid, supervised activity with your child unless it’s absolutely warranted — and by that I mean that there is evidence that there are real issues between that parent and the child that meant good judgment dictated that parent not have unsupervised access with the child. And our judges in our courts require an enormous amount of evidence before they’re going to supervise a loving parent with his or her own child.”