Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

Question:

We are attempting to work through child custody agreements in mediation, but my wife will not give me more than every other weekend and some summer vacation time.

I want to have more parenting time with my daughter, but I'm not sure what to do if my wife won't give it to me.

What should I do to get extra visitation?

Question:

I need some marriage separation advice on how to handle my children's sleeping arrangements and if there is an issue of child neglect while my wife and I are going through our divorce.

She is allowing my minor stepdaughter, who is 17, to spend the night in the same bed with her boyfriend in "our" house, although I am not living there.

Is this considered a form of parental neglect?

By Robert Ferrer

Archivist and Principle Researcher, University of Illinois

As I mentioned in my previous column about Parental Alienation Awareness Month, Parental Alienation Syndrome is currently under consideration to be included as either a "mental disorder" or a "relational problem" in the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as DSM-5.

The inclusion would go a long way toward creating awareness and helping children and families affected by this disorder. (Read "10 Facts About Parental Alienation.")

DSM-5 is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. The DSM-5 is scheduled for release in 2013. 

I would make three recommendations once PAS is included in the DSM-5: