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This is an issue that will affect our nation for the next century.
In the past the legal system favored the women, although this seems to be changing. No matter how you look at it, child custody is a rip off - One side gets custody, the other side gets "limited visitation rights" and gets financially screwed for the next 18 years. No matter who gets custody, the man or the women, and no matter who pays the support, be it the man or the woman, someone is getting the short end of the stick.
The only soluation I see is joint custody, right down the center, and no financial support from either party. They each get the child for four days in a row, no matter what holiday or weekend, etc, is.
I dated a woman named Karen years ago who had a beautiful nine year old girl. For the frist five years of this child's life, the father didn't know he had a child. "Vince" didn't find out that he had a child until Karen listed him as the father on some document, and then the state sued his ass for back support. So far as I'm concerned, that's fraud - and Vince has a right to sue the mother. Of course this doesn't bring into effect the emotional damage of both the child and the father, both of whom missed out on the most important bonding years.
Thank god I never found myself in these circumstances.
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