Mentsch1: I don’t think you’re following my point. To simplify: For a child to have one parent tell her to be a good Evangelical Christian while her other parent is insisting she be a good Wahhabi Muslim, and they have joint custody, kills the child. It is highly detrimental to the child’s emotional health to be told to do to opposite and incompatible things by opposing parents.
The court needs to take a side in order to preserve the child’s health and prevent her health breakdown from such an impossibility from such a tug of war that the child’s in middle of as the pawn.