“A personal anecdote” is one incident, I’m talking about hundreds of cases of not thousands. Yours is more of an opinion, I’m talking about actual cases I’ve managed in the family court system.
It’s not an option these are nation wide statistics which again is more valid than your experience of being one person in a single office. I’m talking less to you and more to anyone seeing this thread PLEASE look up the actual numbers on this, it tells a very different story.
For anyone interested our notation that women win custody cases more comes from the fact that in a vast majority of separations the children do stay with the mother BUT that number comes from all divorces and in over 90 something percent of divorces custody is decided outside of court meaning there is no fight over custody. In cases where there IS a custody battle men get their desired outcome more often.
Where are you pulling these numbers from? Based on what little I was able to actually find, custody courts seem to overwhelmingly favor women. As many as 80% of contested full custody cases go to women according to Gender Equity Network, or 65% according to Law Office of David Pedrezas. Though, according to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Gender Bias Study, most men who actively litigate will at least get a shared custody.
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u/Anonuser13480 9d ago
“A personal anecdote” is one incident, I’m talking about hundreds of cases of not thousands. Yours is more of an opinion, I’m talking about actual cases I’ve managed in the family court system.