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→Conditional and supervised parenting time
In general, there need to be some fairly serious concerns about a parent's lifestyle or behaviour, and the risk their lifestyle or behaviour poses to the children, before their parenting time should be conditional. As well, the conditions of a parent's parenting time should be no broader and no more difficult than is what is actually needed to address the concerns about that parent and the children's health and wellbeing.
A parenting schedule could also require that a parent's parenting time be ''supervised '' by a grandparent, by another relative or a friend, or by a person who specializes in supervising parenting time. (There are a number of organizations that provide supervision services for a fee.) Just like conditional parenting time, supervised parenting time should be limited to circumstances when the parent or their behaviour poses a risk to the children. Supervised parenting time is usually intended to be a temporary response to a short-term problem, not a permanent condition of the children's time with the parent.
====Children's refusal to see a parent====