Fathers psychologically abuse their children. Fathers economically intimidate their wives. Fathers seek custody only to maintain their patriarchal domination of women. Fathers are psychologically unfit parents. Fathers brainwash their children.
Fathers profit from divorce.
And the laundry list goes on and on. In spite of the serious problems faced by divorced men, family law reform is commonly presented as exclusively a woman's necessity. Indeed, there has been a well orchestrated effort on the part of government, radical feminists and the news media, to present the issues not in terms of children's needs, but rather in terms of women's rights, women's needs, the so-called feminization of poverty, etc. If men are mentioned at all, it is only within a fictional framework of a pseudo-Marxist drama in which oppressed female victims struggle against the privileged male tyrant. The entire matter of family law reform has been reduced to a political male-bashing that serves to defend against growing public awareness of the inequities inflicted on fathers in our family courts.