Many divorces that settle before trial are quite heated and often involve compromises on custody because of the absence of a shared custody presumption.
In America, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in the Atlantic,"White flight was a triumph of social engineering, orchestrated by the shared racist presumptions of America's public and private sectors".
But they share a presumption that there is something distinctly alarming about contraception, or at least about women not having to pay out of pocket for it.
And I think what you're interested in is that in the background of these deals was the presumption, shared on behalf of the lobbyists on the one side and the White House on the other, that the public option was not going to be in the final product".
Like many Arabists, "Lawrence of Arabia" shared the sublime Victorian presumption that a harsh nomadic life makes a better person.
Edits the Pink Tape family law blog I'm anxious about proposals to introduce a presumption of shared parenting.
What irks me is the central presumption, one shared by most people: that relaxing and doing nothing are compatible with feeding a roomful, even a tableful, of people.
Iain Duncan Smith saw "broken homes" and "fatherlessness" as causes of poverty and crime, but could he and others be persuaded to introduce new rules, starting with the presumption of shared parenting following a breakup?
The domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty has said there should be no presumption of shared custody of children, arguing parents' sense of "entitlement" to custody is exposing children to violence.
Focusing on the shakeup of family justice to deliver a "fairer" system for parents, ministers signalled that the government did not accept last year's family justice review, which warned against introducing a legal presumption of shared parenting.
