The final report of the Family Justice review, carried out by former civil servant David Norgrove, rejects plans to give parents equal rights to share custody of their children if they separate.
The interim report, which was published in March, recommended that there be a legal presumption that children have a ‘meaningful relationship’ with both parents.
But the final report withdraws the recommendation as it claims it could do more harm than good.
It states, ‘Drawing on international and other evidence we opposed legislation to encourage ‘shared parenting’. The evidence showed that people place different interpretations on this term, and that it is interpreted in practice by counting hours spent with each parent, disregarding the quality of the time.
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