Father's meeting with the child

There are many significant practical difficulties in ensuring that fathers can continue to visit their children after divorce.

In addition to deciding that the divorce will be finalized and that the mother will have custody of the child, the divorce settlement often stipulates that the father (in most cases) will have visitation with the child about once a month, taking into consideration the welfare of the child. However, in reality, mothers (in many cases) are often reluctant to let their children see their fathers, or use various excuses to keep them from seeing them.

However, visitation is not a right of the parents, but rather a right of the child. When children grow up, the experience of playing with their fathers when they were small will surely be engraved in their minds and they will grow up. It can be said that we adults have grown up in such a way. On the other hand, if there is no visitation, the child will live the rest of his or her adult life with the feeling that the father and mother are divorced and the father has abandoned the child. As adults, we need to make sure that visitation can take place if we want to ensure the happiness of the child.

The methods of visitation are becoming more and more diverse, not only meeting the child directly at a park, but also allowing the child to contact the father directly when the child is old enough to have a cell phone. It seems that the time has come to rethink the way children and fathers meet.