I. The right of the child to be treated as an interested and
affected person and not as a pawn.
II. The right to grow up in the home environment that will
best guarantee an opportunity to achieve mature and responsible citizenship.
III. The right to the day-by-day love, care, discipline, and
protection of the custodial parent.
IV. The right to know the non-custodial or each parent having
joint custody and to have the benefit of such parent's love and guidance through
adequate visitation.
V. The right to a positive and constructive relationship with
both parents, with neither parent permitted to degrade the other in the child's
mind.
VI. The right to have moral and ethical values inculcated by
precept and example, and to have limits set for behavior so that the child may
develop self-discipline early in life.
VII. The right to the most adequate level of economic support
that can be provided by the efforts of both parents.
VIII. The right to the same opportunities for education that
the child would have had if the family unit had not been transformed.
IX. The right to such periodic review of custodial
arrangements and child-support orders as the parents' circumstances and the
child's benefit require.
X. The right to the recognition of the fact that children
involved in a divorce are always disadvantaged parties, and the law must take
affirmative steps to assure their welfare.
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