Fathers Should Not Be Treated

Demographically, over 90% of the participants strongly agreed that fatherhood is crucial in our society. A little over 47% of fathers, that encouragement from the mothers of their children matters because of the obstacles they faced with finance, and their duties on the job. The final results of marital status statistics is over 80% married fathers, nine percent divorced, and six percent never married. One surprising statistic was 90% cohabitate with the mother and focal child (Glenn & Popenoe, 2006).

Therefore due to problems arising out of bitter divorces, custody, and support battles fathers are ostracize out of their children’s life those issues are driving forces why fathers should have equal rights. Not all women are like this but, for the ones that are rules need to be set in place to protect the father just as well as the child. Not all fathers are bad and should not be looked at and contained in a box with those who refuse to take responsibility for their children. What it should all come down to is the welfare of the child but, in all court battles for custody, support, it is put in a system that is judging a person not by their actions but by accusation of one that has axe to grind against another. Fathers still have the right to access school and other records concerning their children. Nearly 40 percent of all American children, and 69 percent of black children, are born outside of marriage. This leaving the woman to think that she has to be the father and mother becoming angry and bitter, we all should have rights when it come to our children but, they should all be equal rights because when it all boils down to it, the child

Fathers should be given maternity leave to form important bonds with their new child which will positively affect the child's life. There are many instances where fathers have needed to prioritize work to provide financially for their family but where not given an antiquate amount of time to nurture their child emotionally. By giving fathers maternity leave, they have the opportunity to connect with their infant during their child's earliest developmental stage. Many babies are skeptical of their fathers and may cry when approached by them due to not forming a close bond with them in the womb, as they did with their mothers. If fathers were to be given

Fathers today spend more time taking care of their children compared to previous generations. Even with these gains, today's mothers devote almost double the time that fathers do for child care.[2] While every situation is different, in most families there

rooted in patriarchal systems (Hossain et al., 2007), and any prevalent studies on the role parents

Meyer argues that mothers who spend more time with their children should be more likely to obtain custody rather than the fathers. Using support from the Pew Research Center, Meyer states that married fathers spend a round 6.5 hours a week taking care of their children, while mothers

In contrast, the case In Re Southard, 365 P.3d 1089 (2015), the court found that the nonparent should have custody of the child due to a child-parent relationship. In this case, the mother had married two men Southard and Larkins twice. Southard, 365 P.3d at 1092. The result of these multiple unions was three children. Southard, 365 P.3d at 1092. At the end the mother’s fourth marriage with Southard, he received custody of all three children including AR who was not Southard’s biological child, but Larkins. Id. The mother petitioned for custody, but custody was denied. Id. The court found that Southard had physical custody of AR for a year and had developed a child-parent relationship. Id. The court also decided that the time Southard spent with AR were not caused by custodial inference, but by the marriage of the mother and Southard. Id. at 105.

Regardless of whether or not that perception is true, the need exists for attorneys that are passionate about making sure fathers understand their rights and that fathers do not give up based on their belief that family court judges view mothers more favorably when determining custody (Spradlin, 2015). Divorce and child custody matters are particularly emotional because of the private, personal matters that are at issue. The firm receives many calls from fathers who feel as though their attorneys did not adequately represent them and that there exists a conspiracy within family courts and that no matter what, the Court will never rule in a father’s favor. This idea is not true, and the attorneys of FPRLC want to change that ideology for fathers (Walk,

In California, there is no legal bias working against fathers. This myth exists because, in the distant past, there was a time when mothers did have the advantage. However, today, the law does not support this bias, and the Law Offices of Elena Mebtahi has the results, working on behalf of fathers, to prove

Throughout the United States, more than one-third of children don't live with their biological fathers, and about 17 million of those children don't live with any father at all. Of those, roughly 40 percent haven't seen their fathers in the last year. The over 500 Father's Rights organizations are trying in a variety of ways to change these statistics because they believe that fathers are necessary to the intellectual, psychological and emotional well- being of all children. "Family values" groups encourage long lasting stable, marriages and tough divorce laws to increase the number of two- parent households. Some organizations focus on reasonable child support and visitation, as well as creative joint custody arrangements to

In the article “ A Mother's Day Kiss Off,” author Leslie Bennetts claims that even through all of the obstacles that women have had to go through to get to this point, they are still discriminated against when it comes to parenting. Bennetts explains how gender roles still exist. The author tries to give examples of how women should work to improve the roles of women with families. In the article “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.” author Hope Edelman claims it was not her choice to be the commanding “parent” (55). Throughout the article the author talks about the struggles her and her husband have had. Edelman thought marriage was 50/50, but figured out that that is not always true. The author

Child custody arrangements have evolved over the years from a time when children were once seen as property of the father. This began to change as society became more focused on the development of children, understanding the formative years of childhood evolved into adulthood. Mothers have historically been granted custody in the majority of custody cases as determined in nineteenth century by the tender year’s doctrine. Once the tender years doctrine had been determined to be in violation of the fourteenth amendment the primary caretaker rule was developed based on who was the primary caretaker prior to the divorce. With the increase in divorce rates and the legislation of Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act of 1976 set the standard for the Best Interests of the Child. The best interest of the child concept moved away from parental rights, focusing on several factors such as relationships between parent and child, school and home adjustments, mental and physical wellbeing of parents, and wishes of both parents.

To the majority of people, joint custody sounds like the best choice for the child but there is a bad side to it. Disagreeing with joint custody does not always mean the child should only be with their mothers; there are many fathers that are loving and wonderful parents. However there are many cases of fathers causing problems and hurting their children by fighting for custody for the wrong reasons. A study has been done that shows the reasons for a group of fathers to get involved in a custody battle. The main reasons were to punish their wives, they economically and psychologically refused to subside their ex-wives, and they had a patriarchal concept of the male as the “Superior” parent (Chesler). Even though fathers fought for custody

Men can go to war, at home and abroad, they can die for our country and protect its citizens, but when it comes to single fathers receiving equal treatment in court, men are at the losing end. The mother has to basically be insane or a habitual criminal to ever be considered unfit, while all the man has to do to be considered unfit is be a man. Many citizens, who are not involved in custody battles, are not aware of how sexist the system is against men, and sadly there really is no representation for the men who care and love their children. All too often men are written into the role of the deadbeat, the walk away parent, irresponsible and unloving. While there may be some men who fall into this category, women who do the same are always painted

They are made to pay outrageous child support and don’t have proper custody agreements. One pays most of his check on child support and gets to see his child for the weekend, now this in my opinion, this is wrong because if he is going to pay his entire check for his child and not get to see him more than just a weekend. I do agree with him paying for his child’s needs, but if he rarely sees his child why should he be forced to pay his money? He works a good job but still shouldn't be forced to pay as much as he does. My other brother doesn't really have a job he just does random jobs and gets paid some money and he has to pay so much money it isn't even funny and he's in debt because of it, he only gets to see his child once a month on the weekend and that's all he gets, now tell me the fairness of this? Why should men be forced to pay a amount of money that can put them in debt because of the economy and not to get to see his child more? Mothers should not get the entire say of a child, both parties need to cooperate, compromise, and be civil for their child. It takes two to make a baby and that baby is both their