desertrain10
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deadeye;6291693 said:Ghost Leopard;6290582 said:Smh but we live in a patriarchal society tho where weirdly women get preferential treatment in custody cases and can rape a man's pockets through "no fault divorce"
Weird.
@desertrain10
lol
most our laws are essentially all very patriarchal. mothers are more likely to receive and seek custody of their children ( and spousal support) because of the patriarchal notion that men are not meant to be caregivers and that women are not meant to breadwinners.
and though it is true that women are far more likely to be awarded custody, they are also far more likely to ask for it in the first place. to establish bias, one must show that equally qualified fathers who request custody are denied more than half of the time, and the numbers says differently. courts can't be expected to award what they're not asked to. studies have found fathers who ask for custody are very likely to get either sole or joint custody.http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/254/mcneely.pdf
for the most part, custody awards reflects a preference for the status quo (i.e. the child's primary care giver) rather than bias against fathers. since birth women generally are the primary care giver child(ren) while the man works -a manifestation of patriarchy
also one must consider lower/middle income people are less able to afford the lawyers and experts needed in contested custody cases, appeals, etc
with that said i don't see how this case or cases alike discredits or sheds any new light on the ways in which social policies/ soceity perpetuate women's subordination and economic insecurity now or in the past. nor does it address the glass ceiling women face in the workforce, politics etc ... all of which contributes to the following: women represent a disproportionate share of the poor, women are more likely to be poor than men, and single mothers are more likely to live in poverty than single fathers...
http://www.ncrw.org/public-forum/re...s-alarm-experts-women-disproportionately-poor
we still live in a patriarchal soceity bruh
also seems as though he was emotionally unstable so that could have had some bearing on why the courts ruled the way they did
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