Men's Rights Movement

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See also: Dispelling The Myth Of Gender Bias In The Family Court System

That article contains so many fallacies it's hard to take it seriously.

According to the report, a married father spends on average 6.5 hours a week taking part in primary child care activities with his children. The married mother spends on average 12.9 hours. Since two-income households are now the norm, not the exception, the above information indicates that not only are mothers working, but they are also doing twice as much child care as fathers.

That doesn't follow, unless those 12.9 hours are the average for working married mothers, and likewise, if the 6.5 hours is the average for working married fathers. A two-income household doesn't necessarily mean a 50/50 split in time working either.

It only makes sense that mothers who have a closer bond due to the time spent caring for a child be the one more likely to retain primary custody after a divorce.

Ummm...it only makes sense if you think parental rights are earned by performing child care activities. In houses where the father was the main source of income, the reason he works is to provide his family (including the children) with a standard of living. The article places more importance on time spent with a child than time spent working so that child can be fed and clothed, etc.

When you take into consideration that mothers spend more time taking care of children before divorce and only 22 percent of fathers take advantage of spending what I would consider quality time with their children after the divorce, the fact that more mothers retain custody seems reasonable... doesn’t it?

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The author doesn't even consider the notion that maybe only 22 percent of fathers spend quality time with their children after the divorce because the other 78% are discriminated against by a broken system. I'm not saying they are, but she doesn't even consider it, and instead leaps to a conclusion based on no actual reasoning.

How can there be a bias toward mothers when fewer than 4 percent of custody decisions are made by the Family Court?

...because it's irrelevant if only 4% of custody decisions are made by the family court, only what happens to those 4% is relevant to determining whether there is a bias by family court. This is like saying there's no problems whatsoever with jury trials, because only 5% of people arrested go before a jury. The fact that 95% of people arrested don't see a jury doesn't give you any information about the jury system.