In the most common use of the term, sole custody refers to a context in which one parent has sole physical custody of a child.
[3] Legal custody involves the parents' participation in important life decisions pertaining to the child, such as significant medical decisions or where the child attends school.
Research indicates that children fare better in joint custody arrangements, or custody arrangements that allow a child to have good access to both parents.
[6][7] Although women are granted sole custody more often than men, it is a popular misconception common in the men's rights movement that this is due to systemic bias; in reality it is because men infrequently contest or seek it.
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