[1] The listing of cases was drawn from the Department of Justice Canada Survey of Child Support Awards, and represented 80 percent of the cases during that period for both courts.
[2] Thus, there should be serious consideration of whether it is essential to interview both parents of a previous marriage in future studies.
[3] Meaning that both parents of a former marriage were interviewed.
[4] If both parents of a former union were included, there would be greater weighting on certain families, so one parent was randomly selected for further analyses.
[5] As it turned out, not a single recipient of the letter called to decline to participate. Seven people called, and all expressed interest in participating.
[6] When we refer in this study to separation, we are referring to the point when parents no longer resided together as partners, as opposed to the time of the divorce.
[7] Not cumulative, parents could choose more than one method.
[8] We invited respondents to suggest other areas where a division of responsibilities was relevant to them, but none of them suggested additional categories.
[9] Our discussion of parent satisfaction with shared custody later in this section addresses this latter issue.
[10] Comments of individual respondents are provided in Appendix C.
[11] Detailed responses are provided in Appendix D.
[12] Detailed responses are provided in Appendix E.
