Hanna Rosin has an interesting piece on men’s rights activists vs. family law courts at Sl

Hanna Rosin has an interesting piece on men’s rights activists vs. family law courts at Slate: “There’s a real perception—even women share it—that courts are unfair to fathers,” says Ira Ellman, a custody expert at Arizona State University.  But as Rosin points out, “the great revolution in family court over the past 40 years or so has been the movement away from the presumption that mothers should be the main, or even sole, caretakers for their children.” These days, women are much less likely to get sole custody, and a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers shows a rapid increase in mothers paying child support and alimony. “The real inequality in family courts these days is not based on gender, but on income,” Rosin writes. Wealthy men have successfully fought against proposed reforms that would have forced them to pay more child support. With elite, college educated men, “it’s outrageous how little they can end up paying in child support in some cases,” says Ellman, the Arizona State professor. But poor men are in a different predicament. Welfare reform in the 1990s included an effort to track down fathers who weren’t paying child support. As the economy sank, those fathers fell behind on their payments and often wound up in jail or permanent debt, as Elaine Sorensen of the Urban Institute has documented. (Graphic via Wikipedia) -- source link

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