lilith- I’m guessing this was one of those cases where they simply didn’t catch it right away. I’m sure Sharon, her reps, lawyers, etc., had very, very red faces when they realized that it had slipped by them!

celebbabylover, I know that it was her lawyer who denied this, but it should have been her publicists duty to stop twiddling their thumbs and handle it adequately.
This story was corrected more than 2 days later (there’s the mistake I made and in a business where good press makes quite the difference, in my honest opinion, this is way too late. But well, maybe it’s just nothing.

lilith- It was her lawyers that denied this, not her rep or publicist.

That said, I think what they are trying to say is that she never lost joint custody…Because she never really had it in the first place. Like other commentors have said, Roan has lived mostly with Phil for most of his life. Rather, what happened is that Sharon was unable to GAIN any more custody than she already has.

I don’t know what to believe. The court order stated that Phil received “sole permanent physical custody” and yet her attorney says that everything is still the same. I’m going to go with what is the court order because Stone’s attorney may be trying to put a positive spin an unfortunate situation. If the order is wrong, her attorney should go to court to ask for clarification or a revised order.

In any event, the bottom line is that the judge thought it was in the boy’s best interest to stay with his father in SF instead of in LA, so either way you look at it Sharon lost her bid to gain more custody.

Are her representatives/ publicists sleeping? Why did it took 24 hours to deny this? Sorry, I might be completely on the wrong path but something’s fishy here. But I hope that they indeed have joint custody.

Britney Spears spent 95% of her time driving around the city, courting paparazzi. She wasn’t even remotely the primary caregiver for her sons during that time. It wasn’t rocket science that she wasn’t the right person to have custody of them at that time.

Lauren- I could be wrong, but I think people reacted to Britney’s situation because of the boys, not neccesarily Brit herself.

I think people were worried about how Sean and Jayden would handle being seperated from their mother since she was, as SeanJay pointed out, their main caregiver until her breakdown.

Being seperated from mommy can be very traumtic for a one and two year old (which is how old Jayden and Sean were at the time). I’ll admit that I was one of those people who worried about how the boys would react if Kevin got custody and they were seperated from their mommy.

That said, I did come to realize that, at the time, being with Kevin was the best thing for them. It also sounds like they weren’t too traumitzed at being seperated from her (even when she temporalily lost even visitation rights).

Basically, I think it’s just the maternal instict in us that makes us go “Oh those poor kids! How awful to have to be seperated from mommy!”.

“It’s sad that you get ill over people showing another human common sympathy, relax.”

What’s truly sad is your apparent belief that as long as a woman is a mother, she has every right to parent her children, regardless of the circumstances or evidence to prove she is unfit. Frankly I find your apathy towards situations like that disturbing, and if you think it helps anyone in any form, you’re wrong.

As for bringing Britney and her situation into a post about Sharon-it’s called relevance to the topic at hand. Not a difficult concept to grasp.

It’s sad that you get ill over people showing another human common sympathy, relax.
I’ve been through custody cases w/ family memebers. Just because a judge decides something doesn’t mean it was the right choice .

I feel sorry for ANY parent who looses their kids or the right to be a huge part of their lives. I hope Sharon moves to SF since it’s a short plane ride from LA. I’m sure Roan & his brothers would be thrilled to grow up closer together.

This case was barely talked about & we got little to no details. It shows what happens when the lawyers shut their mouths & don’t leak bad things about the other parent .I’m glad Sharon & Phil has kept this private for Roan’s sake.

I agree 100% with mtoo. This immediate sympathy with mothers who lose their children when the same treatment is rarely given to fathers is utterly ridiculous. And this is hardly the worst of it. When Britney lost custody of her boys the comments here-”She needs her babies back,” “she can’t be seperated from them,” “She’s their mother”-made me want to be physically ill. All the evidence in the world for why she had no right to raise those children was right in front of them, and all these people could do was whimper about how awful and unfair it was that she as a mother could not be with her children. If the father is the better, more upstanding parent, he has every right to care for and raise his own children. Period. This idea that fathers are second in command is archaic, insulting, and in no way beneficial to anyone.