Thank you, new Chair.
You'll remember the testimony around this. The existing legislative language speaks to the “nature and strength of the child's relationship” with each parent, or in its language, “with each spouse”, with “the child's siblings” and so on.
The question was whether “nature and strength” is the right language. What if there's a very strong and controlling parent—a situation that does not actually represent a healthy relationship—but the relationship is very strong; in other words, the child is scared to death of one of the parents?
I know what they're trying to get at with “nature and strength” in that legislative language. I'm suggesting that the “quality” of the child's relationship is more neutral language and more encompassing of what's healthy, in distinction from the use of the word “strength”.