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RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY Phần 4

Chương này không cho rằng sự khác biệt giữa cha mẹ dân cư và nonresidential là tối thiểu, hoặc họ phải được deemphasized. Cũng không phải là cho rằng nó là dễ dàng để đặt một giá trị về các cơ hội khác nhau, trách nhiệm dành cho phụ huynh mỗi. | 152 Mark Strasser This chapter does not argue that differences between residential and nonresidential parents are minimal or that they must be deemphasized. Nor is the claim that it is easy to put a value on the different opportunities or responsibilities afforded to each parent. Indeed the Principles implicitly understate both the difficulty of putting a value on the experiences of residential or nonresidential parents as well as the difficulty in comparing their experiences. For example the comments suggest that a residential parent s disproportionate responsibility for a child might. .be assumed to be roughly counterbalanced by the disproportionate relational benefits concomitant with residential child care. 54 While that assessment is probably accurate for some parents it may well not capture the experience of a residential parent who is struggling to make ends meet if only because that parent may be so exhausted and overworked that it is too difficult to reap the relational benefits.55 By the same token the comments capture the experience of some parents but not others by suggesting that a nonresidential parent s possible loss with respect to the relationship with the child might be considered roughly counterbalanced by the residential parent s disproportionate responsibility and provision of child care. 56 This would depend upon the relative degrees to which a a residential parent finds it burdensome to provide a disproportionate amount of childcare 57 and b a nonresidential parent finds it burdensome to have a diminished or nonexistent relationship with his or her child.58 Presumably the Principles decline to measure and weigh the many incalculable and incommensurate non-financial costs and benefits incident to family dissolution 59 because of the inherently subjective nature ofthese benefits andburdens and the inherent difficulties in measuring them. If that is so however the Principles should suggest that these matters not be reviewed because of the great