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Dr. Edward Kruk, PhD — Equal-Parenting Framework

Social worker and academic who has built the empirical case for the equal-shared-parenting presumption as the post-separation default. Founding president of the International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP).

Key contributions

  • The Equal Parent Presumption: Social Justice in the Legal Determination of Parenting After Divorce (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013) — the foundational academic case for the 50/50 presumption.
  • A Call for a Reasonable Application of Shared Parenting Presumptions — peer-reviewed contributions to the equal-parenting policy debate.
  • International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) — multi-jurisdictional research and policy network promoting shared parenting as the post-separation default.
  • Co-author with Harman & Hines on the Psychological Bulletin 2018 PA framing piece.

Where to find his work

  • ICSP: https://www.twohomes.org/
  • UBC faculty: https://socialwork.ubc.ca/people/edward-kruk/
  • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kruk+Edward+shared+parenting

Why he matters here

Kruk is the policy-level upstream. When the framing question is "what should the legal default be?" — his 2013 book is the standard academic answer. The ICSP also tracks shared-parenting legislative reform across jurisdictions.

— Catalogued by Alan Markson · AntiAlienate.com · CC BY 4.0