Hand written personal letters are best. I hope the discussion below will inspire you to ask your legislators to do everything possible to end this exclusion of fathers from children's lives. Meetings will continue as usual. No surprise here. What the studies do show is that fathers use AFDC at one tenth the rate for mothers.
Mothers abuse children at double to triple the rate for fathers.
Obviously, such preferences in custody are OK since we have a mother preference custody system right now. If it is OK to have a preference system for custody, then the father should be the preferred single parent. Judges could, and should do this now, but don't. My vote would go for an additional public policy that it is best for children who can't be taken care by both parents to be taken care of by their father. The system grants the welfare and then devotes enormous resources to force the father to pay for decisions which he was excluded from having any part in making.