It was inevitable as the battle of the sexes heated up that divorce would become the bloodiest battlefield. If all is fair in love and war, divorce is the Normandy Beach of American culture. Neither side takes prisoners, except, of course, the children. In fairness, divorcing women and children in the past have suffered disproportionately, at least financially. Yet, given the expectation today that divorced women go to work, though they may have been full-time homemakers previously, women face punitive loss of their children when courts assign custody to the father.
Men are familiar with the fate.
Until recently, except in rare cases of abuse or abandonment, women were awarded the children. Now one in six single-parent families are headed by fathers, according to a recent census report. Meanwhile, courts have persecuted fathers for failure to pay child support while allowing women to move their children so far away that regular visitation is logistically improbable. If they don't know the answers, then they might consider that they're not ready for marriage. Prenuptial agreements aren't fun, but neither is divorce.