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- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
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- Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 13:31:55 EST
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- -From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- -
- - 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
- -
- -
- I think you are overstating your case to say that the data do not
- (data is plural of datum) add up to anything. You really should say that
- the data are not decisive. But then decisive data are almost never avaiable.
- The data presented are a prima facie case that discrimination exists and
- the burden of proof should really be on the legal system if the claim is
- made that awards ARE somehow fair after all.
-
- Rohit Parikh
-