I've been doing some reading about the occurrence of judicial unfairness in custody battles. I'm appalled by some of the numbers I've been reading. My bf is currently involved in a child-support/custody battle (He has been paying child support willingly every week since the day her cheating ass left him, though she has not lifted a finger to make her situation better), and we have been talking about how the courts generally favor the mother in most cases. It isn't right. And the resources available to women during these cases are above and beyond those available to fathers.
Check out some of these stats:
Check out some of these stats:
- According to the U.S. Census Current Population Report on Custodial Mothers and Fathers and their Child Support:
- About 5 of every 6 custodial parents were mothers (84.4 percent) and 1 in 6 were fathers (15.6 percent), proportions statistically unchanged since 1994
- According to a 1999 report of the Department of Health and Human Services:
-Girls without a father in their life are two and a half times as likely to get pregnant and 53 percent more likely to commit suicide.
-Boys without a father in their life are 63 percent more likely to run away and 37 percent more likely to abuse drugs.
-Both girls and boys are twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to end up in jail and nearly four times as likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems.
- In 2003, 20,952 entries for divorce were filed in Massachusetts courts.
- According to the Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Women and Men in the United States:
-Men were more likely than women never to have been married (32 percent and 25 percent, respectively).
-Women were more likely than men to be divorced or separated (13 percent compared with 10 percent), and much more likely to be widowed (10 percent compared with 3 percent).
- 75 percent of custodial mothers move at least once within four years after separation or divorce, according to the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Report on Family Law: Relocation of Custodial Parents.
- The following are recent statistics about children of divorce and separation from the newsletter Common Sense & Domestic Violence, 1998 01 30
Allegations of family violence are the weapon-of-choice in divorce strategies. Lawyers, and paralegals in women's shelters, call them "The Silver Bullet". False abuse allegations work effectively in removing men from their families. The impact that the removal of fathers has on our children is horrific.
The Impact on our Children Inter-spousal violence perpetrated by men is only a small aspect of family violence. False abuse allegations are only a small tile in the mosaic of vilifying the men in our society. They serve well in successful attempts to remove fathers from the lives of our children.
Here are some statistics resulting from that, which show more of the whole picture.
