If judges like Judge Bruce D. White of Fairfax County , Virginia were actually to consider what is the best interest for children, they wouldn’t be taken from their mothers and handed to fathers who seek sole custody (a typical request of abusive fathers, as found by the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force Study on Violence in the Family), especially when mom had been the primary caregiver all along.
All these father’s groups are screaming about “fatherlessness” and our government is giving all these father’s groups BILLIONS of our tax dollars to promote “responsible fatherhood,” i.e. help fathers fight for custody in court. Don’t laugh…it happens.
Actually, the studies show that children (either sex) are at more risk with single fathers than they are with single mothers.
One statement in this study stood out to me, because it was particularly true in my situation…and I am sure others moms: “single mothers devoted a greater share of their household food expenditures to grains, vegetables, fruit, and milk, whereas single fathers spent more on food away from home and on alcohol.” Just one statement picked out of a 20 page report, but it rings so true.
