[Smokin' Joe]

Thankfully, you are not alone. A friend was just awarded custody of his six children. They stay at his mom's when he is out working as a driller on an oil rig.

[SouthernFreebird]

You see, you and Bob both just admitted that the courts are awarding the fathers their children and support from the absent parent.... So what is your beef?

[crystalk]

Bad as this situation is, it may not be quite as bad as it was 20 years ago. For one thing, a FEW more women and judges may think a father is something a kid needs, not just a menace with a checkbook.

In the cases where there was no marriage nor relationship nor live-in, more courts seems to be asking if the woman did not actually WANT, even DESIGN to have the child...and victimize some man as a mere sperm donor...

More women are deciding they don't WANT the kids, just dump them on Daddy. [0ver 20 yrs ago, an aquaintance of mine with seven children including a baby girl, suddenly had his wife run away with a man nearing 70 who had money, and she wouldn't have anything to do with her own children.]

More women today are so obviously unfit to love and care for ANYTHING, plus with increasing awareness of successful parenting by fathers alone (lower crime rates, more successful children and not just boys, either)...causes that to be looked at at least casually by some judges, as a possible option, whereas 20 yrs ago the mother would just automatically get them regardless of her low morals and lack of decency or character...