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‘Most parents’ agree courts should award care to mums

Filed under: General — tonyf @ 6:55 am Wed 6th September 2006

Wednesday September 6, 2006
By Chris Barton

Mothers get the majority of day-to-day care of children in parenting orders made by the Family Court, but new statistics indicate that’s the way most parents want it.

The gender-based statistics released by the court for the first time since 1990 show 65 per cent of day-to-day care (previously called custody) orders are awarded to mothers, 11 per cent to fathers, about 12 per cent to another party, and that 12 per cent share the care.

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