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As a father, I find the idea that I could lose custody of my children though a legal default to be ridiculous. Custody is not a casual decision. 8% of fathers demand custody because that is approximately the fraction of fathers who want it. The vast majority of fathers are fiercely career/work-oriented.


I don't understand your first statement. You currently lose custody of your children by default, that's the problem. Attempts have been made to change the law in some states to fix that, but were defeated by NOW and their supporters. Currently, the law considers the best interests of the child to be "with the mother". It should consider the best interests of the child to be "with both parents".

A review of the cases does not support your claim. 8% of fathers demand custody because 8% of fathers feel the mother is so bad that the children are better off with the father. The fact that they generally win in such cases is expected, but can not be generalized to imply that if fathers simply seek custody more often, they will still get it that often. When they seek custody in cases where the mother is not abusive, they lose.


The same way vast majority of mothers used to be fiercely home-stay oriented. It was explained to them that it's wrong. That they should be also present in the workforce. They should make up 50% of US CEO's. They should be in Congress.

So, why not to, start social marxist change also in court rulings. Let's explain fathers they should take responsibility for children in 50% of divorce cases. Let's have legislation enforcing that. Let's have think-tanks to make it happen.

I don't really care, I love working with women. My only problem is that things born in Marxist ideology like feminism are making social experiments on us whether we want it or not. And none of these left wing dreamed of social experiments work.

Why are we putting all these women under so much pressure? You have to be in IT. There are not enough women there. You must be good in IT. And what about this what women want to do? Women's psyche is more gentle than ours. You show thin teens on magazine covers long enough and next thing you know you deal with anorexia/bulimia pandemic. You create social pressure for them not to have kids, to delay having family, to go there and compete in brutal business world. What gives you right to do that?

Have you read the article under which we are commenting? The author is not happy. She definitely feels like her life choices were forced upon her. All I'm saying is that this is wrong. You don't feel social pressure to be a good cook, or spend 8 hours a day with a kid. Feminism hurts women, not men. This is what the article shows.


What a creepy comment. Of course, HN can reliably expect to see comments about how much weaker women are than men on any thread involving gender. It's apparently a law of physics.


Yes, women are the weaker sex. And your task as male is to protect them. No need to say thank you. But your parents should have told you that long time ago. Maybe they did, but you didn't listen. You don't seem to be good at listening.




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