Prison Guard Today » Parenting http://www.prisonguardtoday.com Do you want to become a corrections officer? Here's a discussion about it. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:35:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Imagine this: a divorced mom of 3 decides to take a full time job as a prison guard,? http://www.prisonguardtoday.com/2008/10/imagine-this-a-divorced-mom-of-3-decides-to-take-a-full-time-job-as-a-prison-guard/ http://www.prisonguardtoday.com/2008/10/imagine-this-a-divorced-mom-of-3-decides-to-take-a-full-time-job-as-a-prison-guard/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:28 +0000 admin http://www.prisonguardtoday.com/2008/10/imagine-this-a-divorced-mom-of-3-decides-to-take-a-full-time-job-as-a-prison-guard/
leaving her 10 yr old, 6 yr old and 5 yr old in the care of one of their school teachers 5 days a week, mostly overnights. The father of the children is petitioning for the kids to come and live with him, since he is not oly financially able to afford it, but he is a stay at home dad, providing the kids with a familial relationship.

What would your ruling be if you were the judge? Send the kids to live with their Dad who is able to spend 24/7 with them, or keep them in the full time care of the babysitter with visitation with their prison guard mother?
Sorry.. things I forgot to mention:

*Dad is receiving permanent Navy pension / compensation and is current on court ordered child support. He gets every other weekend with the children plus school holidays (spring break, c’mas vacation, etc.)

*the father has been remarried for 2 years now and the step-mother has been in the kids lives since they were 4 yrs, 2 yrs 1 yr. they all have awesome relationhips.
the step-mother also has a steady income working outside the home from 10am- 3pm.

*mom works 3pm-12pm tues-sat. kids go to school then go home w/ the youngest’s 1st grade teacher unless with their dad on weekends.

*One of the problems here is that the mother has a restraining order against the father because she is afraid he’s going to hurt her, despite him never doing so. Scared divorcee, I suppose.

*No history of child abuse, father has been constant figure in their lives since birth.

*Kids are the ones asking us to take them from their mom’s home.
the days off that the mother gets are spent sleeping while the kids are with the sitter. basically the kids live with their babysitter 5 days a week.
* Mom chose to work nights, was not forced to. Quit her job working at the children’s school to become a prison guard.
* the legal petition was for the father to get primary residence with shared parental responsibilty . in other words, the kids would be living with dad with reasonable visitation with mom on her days off. trying to do what’s in their best interest, not take their mother from them.
* dad agreed at the divorce to allow the mother temporary primary physical residence due to the fact that she already had a home large enough for all of them and the father had not yet secured a home. now the father has a large home on 5 acres of land large enough for everyone ina good school district.
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