Child Support #2

Based on research, it was established that majority of the time in a custody case the child would end up going to the custodial parent, which for the most part is usually the mother. Eleanor E. MacCoby and Robert H. Mnookin (1992), social researcher of Stanford University studied 933 California families states "as they made post-separation arrangements for their children. Of the 53 cases in which both parents sought sole custody, the mother won 45 percent of time; the father, 11 percent. In more than a third of the contested cases, the outcome was joint physical custody" (.104).