Women get the benefit of the doubt in custody cases....

I know this is a little adult / heavy for this board but I am involved in a custody/contact case with my daughter and I'm getting the feeling that women can do just about anything and get away with it. There seems to be a presumption that women are basically good & any problems in a family relationship must be somehow caused by the man. Women -or at least the woman in my case - can lie in and out of court, cruelly manipulate her child, and generally act against the best interests of the child and........nothing. I guess in the end, it's not against the law to be a total b***c.

The guitarist in my dad's band got custody of his kids, so no.

The guitarist in my dad's band got custody of his kids, so no.

Legendaryscmt

its more healthy if a child develops/grows up with the mother then the father, i guessGs4u2

It's true. It's long been assumed that women have a special bond with the child they were carrying around inside them for 9 months and breastfeeding afterwards. The prejudice arose from the fact that neglectful parents, more often than not, seem to be men. It's very difficult for the courts to get over that prejudice in each individual case, especially when so many custody battles are just a means for partners to emotionally blackmail one another. Actually weeding all of the lies out of the two sole, opposing testimonies is near impossible.

Women get far more than the benefit of the doubt. You can literally have pictures of the woman stark-drunk and testimonies from the woman's own mother and the court will go "But the baby needs the mama!" and give the dad supervised visitation every two weeks.

It's sickening.

its more healthy if a child develops/grows up with the mother then the father, i guessGs4u2

They consider the woman as the primary caregiver and woman will always be the custodial parent, unless you can prove that she is an unfit mother. They consider the men as the primary provider, which means one thing "child support". It sucks. I have been through it to. The best thing to do is to try to keep an good relationship with the mother, so she won't drag you through the courts. If she do, you lose. I wish someone gave me that advice.

They get the benefit of the doubt in everything.cryptosopoidium

This man speaks the truth

[QUOTE="cryptosopoidium"]They get the benefit of the doubt in everything.Macanada

This man speaks the truth

It is so true. I know a guy who was arrested because his girlfriend said he hit her. He sat in jail for 3 days and she put a restraining order on him. He gets out and she calls him to come over her place to talk. When he gets there, the cops pulled up 2 minutes later. She called the cops and told them he was there. He got arrested again and had to sit in jail for 30 days before he went to court because he violated a previous restraining order. She totally set him up.

Women get far more than the benefit of the doubt. You can literally have pictures of the woman stark-drunk and testimonies from the woman's own mother and the court will go "But the baby needs the mama!" and give the dad supervised visitation every two weeks.

It's sickening.

its more healthy if a child develops/grows up with the mother then the father, i guessGs4u2

I think it's supposed to be the fact that women are supposed to have that maternal instinct. I've seen plenty of cases where the mother loses their kids though.