Nevertheless, in the eyes of family law, I wasn't worth a moment of the court's consideration when it came to custody. Judges every day cast orders that devastate thousands upon thousands of husbands and loving fathers on grounds that are flimsy at best. They banish fathers from their homes and their children. They thrash them further with often unfair, if not outrageous, support and alimony orders for little more than the sin of being male. Don't misunderstand me.
Divorce can ravage women's lives, too.
Many are forced to work low-paying jobs while raising the kids. Absentee fathers are epidemic -they are the heartless buffoons who paint men as divorce's evil stereotype. But good men suffer in divorce, too. They are one of the most silent of classes - men who deeply love and miss their kids, who are neglected in their roles as fathers, often becoming little more than glorified babysitters with a bankbook who did little to deserve their fate. The cavalry is at the ready, however, for divorcing women.