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| resourcetype = a booklet that includes highlights of language changes between the ''Family Law Act'' and the ''Divorce Act'':
| link = [http://resources.lss.bc.ca/pdfs/pubs/Guide-to-the-New-BC-Family-Law-Act-eng.pdf Guide to the BC Family Law Act]
}}This section is all about putting your children first and developing parenting arrangements that work best for the children while also working for you. It provides a <span class="noglossary">brief</span> introduction to parenting after separation and talks about a few of the things that you probably want to think about when figuring out the plans for parenting after separation that are most likely to be in your children's best interests. It also provides examples of different kinds of parenting arrangements that might help you develop your own.
While the other sections in this chapter, especially the section "[[Basic_Principles_of_Parenting_after_Separation|Parenting after Separation]]," discuss the legal issues involved in deciding how children <span class="noglossary">will</span> be cared for after a couple separate, they don't say much about the practical day-to-day issues involved in parenting after separation and exactly how children's time could be divided between their parents' homes. This section will briefly discuss what it means to parent after separation and how separation affects children, but mostly focuses on building parenting arrangements. It might help to read the "[[Separating Emotionally]]" section when you're done here.