As one of sixteen million non custodial parents (read: fathers) in the United States this one hits close to home. John Murtari has been jailed for failure to pay all of his child support and has gone on a hunger strike.
http://www.ancpr.org/...
Here in my state of Nebraska when a couple gets a divorce the children go with the mother after the family law attorneys have wiped out their shared assets. As much as I detest the things I see in the Republican Party I must say that I'd pull all of the little red levers if I were sure that campaign promises to reform this odious system would actually
lead to reform.
There will, of course, be a small contingent of women here who've made bad choices in the past and have horror stories about their ex husbands. This will likely be quite a bit like the horror story I have about my ex wife and her drug addiction. Annecdotal evidence, no matter what the frothy emotional content might be, does not stand in the face of statistics; the family law attorneys not only profit from but purposefully make worse other people's tragedy and the children are the ones who suffer.
Radical feminism has aligned with our nanny state and done two generations of children a great disservice. The state of Nebraska has not the slightest interest in children so long as they're not showing up at school filthy, unfed, and beaten, yet almost all fathers are barred from equal time with their children even if they're willing to commit their entire net worth to the process of trying to gain access.
What can be done to fix these problems without rolling back the right and necessary gains women have made from feminism?