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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Alternating custody, Best interests, Child contact centre, Contact (law), Coparenting, For the Sake of the Children (report), Implacable hostility, Joint custody, Joint custody (United States), Joint physical care, Noncustodial parent, Parens patriae, Parental child abduction, Parental responsibility (access and custody), Parenting coordinator, Parenting plan, Parenting time, Primary carer, Primary physical custody, Residence in English family law, Shared parenting, Shared residency in English law, Sole custody, Split custody, Supervised visitation, Third-party custody, Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act, Virtual visitation. Excerpt: Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is awarded to both parties. In joint custody both parents are custodial parents and neither parent is a non-custodial parent, or, in other words, the child has two custodial parents. In the United States, many states recognize two forms of joint custody, which include joint physical custody (called also "shared custody") and joint legal custody. In joint physical custody, the actual lodging and care of the child is shared according to a court-ordered custody schedule. In joint legal custody, both parents share the ability to have access to their children's records, such as educational records, health records, and other records. In England, prior to the nineteenth century, common law considered children to be the property of their father. However, the economic and social changes that occurred during the nineteenth century lead to a shift in ideas about the dynamics of the family. Industrialization separated the home and the workplace, keeping fathers away from their children in order to earn wages and provide for their family. Conversely, mothers were expected to stay in the home and care for the household...