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Izabella Woolley listed the similarities and differences in rules and expectations at her mother’s and father’s houses on a sheet of paper.

She pitches in with dinner at both. But at her mom’s, she helps get her younger sister ready for bed, while she feeds the cats at her dad’s. Both parents ban screens before bedtime.

Woolley, 12, was one of six students gathered around a table on a recent Monday afternoon at Islander Middle School on Mercer I

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