All he wanted was access to his children. He is not alone. Figures show that tens of millions of other fathers are living out that same crisis. One reason for that result may be that fathers, unlike huge numbers of mothers, do not act to destroy the rights and interests of their children when placed in positions of control and power. The studies are extremely important given Psychiatrist John W. Jacobs report that many of his colleagues believe ALL marriages will end in divorce and that we will marry at least three times in our lives.
Present studies indicate that the average marriage lasts only for seven years.
There are also between 500,000 and 650,000 parental child abductions in the US alone each year directly related to custody conflicts, with many more going unreported. This heralds in an era of enormous crisis in family relations in America and the rest of the western world. Anecdotal evidence, supplied by a highly placed source at The US State Dept., suggests that the vast majority of parental kidnappings are by women, mothers. My own research supports that finding, as does the evidence from French Hague Convention Attorney, Dr. Alain Cornec. These statistics, together with others and the studies in this book make a compelling case for the shared parenting of children.