Consider the following scenario:   Your ex-partner’s employment is such that they are, from time to time, called into work at a time when they are supposed to be having the child/ren in their care.  Such an occasion arises and your ex-partner contacts you, ahead of time, and suggests that it would be in the best interest of the children to remain in your care for that period of time when they will be at work.  The alternative is that arrangements would need to be made for a paid babysitter for that period of time.  You do not have any specific plans for that time, but you are annoyed that this situation has arisen on a number of occasions.   Which of the following is, in the circumstances, reasonable, and most child-focussed?

Posted on June 9th, 2017

Consider the following scenario:

 

Your ex-partner’s employment is such that they are, from time to time, called into work at a time when they are supposed to be having the child/ren in their care.  Such an occasion arises and your ex-partner contacts you, ahead of time, and suggests that it would be in the best interest of the children to remain in your care for that period of time when they will be at work.  The alternative is that arrangements would need to be made for a paid babysitter for that period of time.  You do not have any specific plans for that time, but you are annoyed that this situation has arisen on a number of occasions.

 

Which of the following is, in the circumstances, reasonable, and most child-focussed?

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