Best Interest 08.11.25
Is 50/50 at a tipping point? Plus: male teacher importance, birth rate-divorce culture connection and more
Hello!
In this monthly roundup of equal parenting news:
The world is organically barreling towards 50/50 parenting. Are laws relevant?
Male teacher shortage, a vision
Would birth rates improve if divorce were fairer to men?
Shoutouts re: gender equality advocacy
Research news
Photo by Brooke Balentine on Unsplash
Is the 50/50 movement obsolete?
Despite millions of dollars of research on how equal parenting schedules affect children, men, women and violence, and thousands of activists working to change laws, I don’t know anyone actively asking the questions:
How many separated parents share parenting time equally?
What is the time-sharing assumption for parents separating today?
In this post, I challenge my colleagues narrowly focused on law change. Evidence shows that in large swaths of the United States, judges, lawyers and everyday people adhere to a cultural presumption of 50/50 schedules when parents split. Why is the movement’s narrative stuck in the 1980s?
How can we study the giant shift…
