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- From: noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.dads-rights,soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.232704.27278@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:27:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.085757.6320@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <qy4ZXB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca>
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- In article <qy4ZXB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca> lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca writes:
- >noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:
- >
- >> In article <1993Jan26.035102.3766@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.e
- >> >In article <1993Jan26.011724.27341@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.
- >>
- >Deletions...
- >
- >> Ted, one question....
- >>
- >> 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?
- >>
- >> Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- >
- >Just one question; Does anyone have real stats on how often men ask for
- >sole or primary custody, in comparison to how often they are actually
- >awarded it?
- >
- >For example, if men ask for some kind of custody in only 30% of all divorce
- >cases, how many of *that* 30% are awarded sole or primary custody?
- >
- >I don't doubt that in many, or even perhaps most cases, there is a judicial
- >sexual bias against men in custody battles. I'd just like to see the stats
- >(comparisons) for this. If anyone has them, please cite these stats and your
- >reference sources.
-
-
- Men are dissuaded from pursuing custody, even joint custody, both by
- court officials and their own attorneys. Attorneys are not willing to
- fight for something they cannot deliver. Most men do NOT have the
- money to pay for an expensive court battle to merely achieve what they
- should be awarded by default. For a comprehensive analysis of the
- reality of the custody situation, based on one of the most thorough
- studies ever conducted on this topic (which discusses this phenomenon),
- see
-
- "Dividing the Child: Social & Legal Dilemmas of Custody"
- by Mnookin and Maccoby
-
- ISBN: 0-674-21294-0
- Harvard Press
-
- Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM
-