A shared residency program, Ms. Sultan said, might be one possibility.
Unlike other studies, the researchers found the same level of psychological complaints in children in shared residency as in those in nuclear families.
In the 1980s, 1% of Swedish parents who divorced had shared residency – children stayed with each parent half the time (or at least 35% of the time).
It is regret when other mothers say they breastfed for longer, envy when other mothers' babies slept through the night from six weeks, and – for me – sadness when you can't see your child half the time because you have 50 50 shared residency.
Lonergan's grandmother still lived in the building; during the years of their shared residency, she developed Alzheimer's disease, a decline that Lonergan dramatized in "The Waverly Gallery," a frankly autobiographical play for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, in 2001.
The vast majority of children lived with their mother and father (679; 91.6%), 45 (6.0%) lived with their mother only, 8 (1.1% lived with their mother and step-father) and 9 children had other living arrangements such as shared residency, lived with father only or with lesbian parents.
But the research is clear that children benefit from two parents being interested in them, and sharing residency encourages this.
Shared residency doesn't work so well if there is conflict (if there is violence, then sharing is not an option), if the children are adolescents (less keen on two homes), or if the children don't like one parent.
And so he stayed on, sharing the residency with his friend, the DJ-producer James Holden.
This study was conducted in the emergency departments of two Midwestern urban tertiary care centers with a shared emergency medicine residency program.
