Why do so many people against fathers rights when it comes to custody and children cite a single study and warp the results?

[worldscolide]

There are these people online and in real life who quote this study, made in 1989, that state that men, when they ask for custody, get it about 70% of the time. What they fail miserably to understand is that it was done in Massachusetts, A joint custody by default state, and that 70% number only covers legal temporary custody at the initial point of divorce, Not Physical custody nor permanent custody, once the divorce is concluded. They cherry pick that single stat out of the entire study. The same study that says that Once divorce is complete women still overwhelmingly end up with physical custody 80% of the time. First thing we need to do here is break down what legal vs physical custody is.. Legal custody only covers decision making, As in medical and school placement and the like. Physical covers where the child is physically.

There is only one state in the US that defaults to joint legal regardless of marital status and that is Massachusetts. Every single other state in the union is a default legal guardianship state, where it defaults to the mother, and the father must go to court to prove paternity, further in order to establish his rights, he must prove to the courts that the mother is some how unfit. Meaning he has no rights to his child if he was not married to her when she had it. She on the other hand, with out establishing paternity, can force him to pay child support (even if he is not biologically the father) on her word alone.

I had a very close friend of mine go through this, even after a DNA test proved he was not the father, Even after going to court and proving to the courts he never even met her. Until she found the actual father he was on the hook for child support. which is bullshit by the way.

In any case i stand with fathers, and i also believe in a fathers rights.

Link to the original study.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/gender-bias-study-supreme-judicial-court

Link to a video explaining it.

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11 mo

Please before you comment, watch the video, she does a better job explaining it than i do. Its only 9 minutes and is worth it.

[midnightmoon05]

I know there are good and bad with m/f.
Traditionally…more females scraficed to stay single to raise kids (not so much nowadays…)
Most males have to have a woman. Some would put bad or good woman before their kids.. maybe that’s the reason …I could be wrong.

[worldscolide]

I dunno but every single study produced in the last 15 years says that a 50/50 split custody is the best. Yet most if not all states say that women are the better parent, when the stats say the opposite. Not kidding on this Even when controlled for single father homes, Women still abuse their kids at 3 times the rates fathers do, Same with killing and neglecting their children. Additionally single mother homes produce the very worst of society.

Look up Title IV-D some time. It basically states for every dollar of child support and spousal support collected they get 50 cents of federal money. The family courts and family judges are financially incentivized to destroy families and keep men from having equal rights. Politicians have even been caught saying that having 50/50 default custody would financially destroy them, because they rake in billions.

[midnightmoon05]

I agree. I learned the 50/50 when I was going through divorce. At the end…I chose to not deal with the court by not taking a dime for the sake of my own sanity and kids well being…
The court system (society) is destroying the family unit.
I k ow plenty of male who are great single dads. I know some who are terrible moms…and vs.
Once pregnant…both need to go to parenting school…both contribute to the kid…there is no perfect solution when family is being destroy.

[worldscolide]

I fully agree

[sirderpsalot123]

Their first L was citing a study that was made in 1986.

[worldscolide]

Right! And it's literally the only study done. Where there are hundreds of studies in the last 10 years that say that equal shared parenting is the best thing possible for the child.

[sirderpsalot123]

I wonder if their attitude would change if instead of fathers' rights, we said "children's rights. Children have a right to have their fathers in their lives.

[worldscolide]

Agreed.

[midnightmoon05]

I learned or read somewhere that Children don’t have rights. They have protections.

[Avicenna]

Family law is known to be very biased against fathers.

[Anonymous]

Single mothers vote democrat.

[worldscolide]

Very true. They like sucking that leftist dick.

[Fuentes]

In their world men don't mattee