I think it does help judges a great deal. I completely commend the comments of the Canadian Association for Equality for that same reason. Once again, the word “rebuttable” is very important here. If you have a rebuttable presumption, it sets a standard. It means that people know what to do when they break up with their spouses. They know that there's a challenge ahead of them if they really want to go against it.
Those who can rebut the presumption will be easily able to do it, notwithstanding that I've suggested the word “unconscionability” be put down as the test. Why? It's because if a woman is truly abused, they're going to be able to rebut the presumption.
In other situations, right now—I'll tell you the law—there's something called the “tender” infants principle, that a nursing mother should have a child a lot more than the father, maybe almost exclusively.
I can tell you that in the past few years there has been an embrace of more generous schedules, even whether they're nursing mothers, because the social scientific studies have proven that, in fact, equal connection between both parents is critical to a child's future development.