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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
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- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:51:32 GMT
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- noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) posts:
- >Given that women are awarded either sole custody or primary custody
- >(usually something like a 75/25 split) in roughly 85% of all divorces
- >in this country in which the divorcing couple are parents of children
- >under age eighteen, despite laws in virtually every state that
- >emphatically set forth that judges should NOT be biased by gender in
- >awarding said custody of children, are the judges and referees of the
- >domestic relations courts of the United States of America guilty of
- >sexual discrimination?
-
- You would have a good case if you can show that, for your
- sample, the same percentage of men and women demanded custody
- and they were equally suited to have custody awarded (by
- whatever reasonable metric for this you care to use).
-
- Personally I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the courts
- have an unfair bias toward awarding custody to the mother, based
- on anecdotal evidence. But on the face of it the data you've
- presented here doesn't really add up to anything.
-
-
- ---peter
-