*Spin Off* Single mums with every 2nd weekend care?

[DreamBelieveAchieve]

Spinning off from the other thread..

Are you or do you know of any kids that live mostly with their father and see their MUM every 2nd weekend?

[MummaBear03]

Up until last term, my bestie's hubby had his kids live with his full time, then the courts gave his ex 50% care for some strange reason.

Another friend has his kids full-time, although he works 65 hours a week (including some night work and saturday work) so his parents actually look after them but he moved in with them after the split and they are now building a new house each side-by-side so he'll live in one and his parents in the other. His ex has them for 2 hours on a saturday once a month and it's supervised at this stage.

My God-son was raised entirely by his dad but now he's 18 he's taken off to find his mum, his dad's very upset since his mother never took notice of him as a child. I guess he just has to find out what she's like for himself.

I know just as many dads with majority care as I do mums IRL. It's only on the internet that I see more mums than dads with majority care.

[Just Add Water]

We have custody of my DH's 3 kids from his previous life and I am a SAHM to them and our 6 month old son. They see their mother for about 8 hours once a fortnight or less often, depending on her schedule. She has never had custody of them and never will - they simply don't fit into her life.

[Bubmum]

Out of all the single parents I know, and I know about 50 (I am not joshing)....I only know one who has raised his sons alone, and that is my cousin. About 8 of them have 50/50, 3 of them do weekends about, and the rest...the Father has nothing at all to do with the children. Pretty poor strike rate. (Oh, 4 of the Dads are deceased, so I guess that excuses them).
But my cousin did a wonderful job with his boys. My family is super huge on single parenting..there are more of us single, than married/de facto, so he didn't feel on the outers at all.

[sockstealingpoltergeist]

One of my DD's class mates had his two sons fulltime, as the mother was a drug addict and took off, opting to never see them.

The other one I knew was a friend of DD's who's mother worked fulltime and the father did not, so he had their DD more days then the mother did. The mother had her approx 2-3 days pw.

[MummaBear03]

I have a friend coming up to visit next month with his little boy who is now 9, he's had his son full-time from 11 months when the mother said she wanted nothing more to do with them. It's hard for him to get CS out of her even though it's through CSA and it's only the minimum amount anyway. She's not spoken to her son since he was 11 months old, he did not get a card for his first birthday, has never had a christmas or birthday present or even a phone call from her despite the fact he's always had the same mobile number.

[Foxy]

I have a male friend who has full care of his daughter (8 yrs old) and the mother has her every Sat arvo to Sun arvo. She is just not that interested, while he is over the moon to have his daughter. :cloud9:

[Whispers]

When our mum moved out when I was 12 we all lived with dad except our younger sister who was 4 at the time

[girly]

My neice..Her mum has her evey 3weekend, sometimes 4th.

[Formerly Mick]

I have full-time care of my 2 boys (3&5). There Mum sees them occasionally, but at this stage nothing as regular as every 2nd weekend. That just wouldn't fit in with her partying and drinking.

If she does see them it's for a few hours max (before she says it's too hard and calls me to pick them up).