Should Parents Be Required To Stay Involved In Children's Life?

Many marriages today end in divorce. Divorces that end when there are children involved are always complicated. The children are the ones that suffer because there is a custodial parent who the child will live with and a non-custodial parent who lives somewhere else. Sadly, the non-custodial is usually the father. Fathers should be required to stay involved in their children’s lives. The fact that non-custodial fathers tend to lose contact with their children and to be more invested in co-residential stepchildren is wrong and policy should be created to correct this. I have mixed feelings about a policy that would make a father invest time in his children 's life so I have decided to explore both reasons. A policy that mandates a man to be involved in his children 's life would not be …show more content…
It would be one that would enforce fathers to first take a parenting class that would help him to be a better father. If the father lives close to the children he should visit his children at the very least see their children bi-weekly. If the father lives out of town they should see their children monthly and out of state every 6 months. These are just guidelines so fathers can and should see their children more if it is economically feasible. With today 's technology fathers can also call their children, text, skype and face time with their children. Although there are so many benefits as to why fathers should be in their child 's lives the one thing that sticks out in my mind is that love should never be forced. When you force people to do things they really don 't want to do the end results are not as good and genuine as they would be if they did it out of love. People often resent things they are forced to do. I would rather know that my father is involved in my life because he genuinely loves me and wants to have a relationship with me not because he is forced to do