N-SING [usually NOUN n](离婚父母)争夺监护权 Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally. (离婚父母)争夺监护权 [British]
A mother yesterday won a tug-of-love battle for custody of her twin daughters.