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The growing case for shared parenting after divorce

Jolie is filing for sole custody of her and Pitt’s six children (seen here in 2011, sans Shiloh)

THERE ARE MANY WAYS IN WHICH celebrities are not like us, from the clothes they wear to the jets they fly. And when Angelina Jolie, one of the world’s most famous women, filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, one of the world’s most famous men, she did something else few unfamous women do: she filed for full physical custody of their six kids. Essentially, she wants to bar Pitt from living with Maddox,

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