Shared parenting arrangements are viewed as encouraging children to know both parents are actively involved and share responsibility in their upbringing.

Under the new Israeli law, shared custody and parenting arrangements will be the default custody arrangement.

Perhaps they got tired of trying to enlist their spouses in a genuine shared parenting arrangement.

When I asked him if he ever ran into resistance from school personnel or his own family about his less-than-conventional parenting arrangement, he told me a story.

Left uncontrolled, there is a great potential for monetary and emotional abuse involved in surrogate parenting arrangements.

"What has started to happen is that in some cases, parents have a real shared parenting arrangement, where the children share their time between two households."

Abandonment (a parent who willfully separates from their children, not wishing any further contact, and in some cases without locating alternative, long-term parenting arrangements, leaving them as orphans)

Surveys show that many ex-spouses develop pleasant and cooperative shared parenting arrangements following their divorce.

This case concerned a divorce where the mother had a high salary and the father stayed at home to look after the children under a shared parenting arrangement.

But the answer is to offer more flexible working patterns and to encourage alternative parenting arrangements that do not focus on gender.