What is the role of the mother in establishing a relationship with the child's primary caregiver?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from M.T.P. v T.P., 2019 NBQB 80 (CanLII):
The mother has been the primary caregiver for the child since birth, and, in my view, it is a beneficial attachment for the child. Indeed, the mother is more probable than not the child’s “psychological parent”: “The importance of preserving the child’s relationship with his or psychological parent has long been recognized” (Gordon v. Goertz 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27 at para. 121). This is seen in the evidence of the public health nurse and in the observations of the maternal grandmother, where the mother and child later resided for a year, and in the mother’s own testimony.
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