"The divorce industry would not exist without divorce. The problem lies with people who get married to the wrong person, married when they are not ready, or people who are sinful and weak and give up on their marriage because its no longer making them happy or convenient."All these iniquities existed a hundred years ago when divorce was considered scandalous, a last resort for all involved. Nick Danger pointed out that child custody was almost always awarded to fathers back then. Perhaps this was intended as a roadblock to divorce, truly placing the family as a whole - especially the children - on a higher plane of importance than any one person's needs. But sometime between then and now, a Marxist based radical feminist movement began a systematic demonization of men that had fathers fixed firmly in the bullseye - men as oppressors, men as abusers, men as uncaring fools and bumblers when it came to their own children. Right alongside this campaign marched the "women's liberation" arm of feminism that declared the family an evil tool of the patriarchy. Women were promised that they could free themselves of patriarchal bonds and "have it all" - even if "having it all" meant dumping hubby and sticking the kids in daycare. But the philosophy would have fallen on its face on day one if women were allowed to suffer the obvious consequences of stupid choices. That's where you come in.
Your profession has institutionalized all of the above by guaranteeing the selfish stupid women who've been charmed by feminism's promises the same deal as the women with righteous grievances. Accountability is assigned only on the male side of the courtroom. Fifty states plus the federal government have massive bureaucracies to enforce - under threat of incarceration - that support payments are met. Yet denial of visitation complaints by men are treated as nuisance cases. The message is clear: divorce decrees are about dissolution of the family and transfer of wealth from men to women - not about "what's best for the children."
Call all criticism ignorant and hateful if you will, it doesn't matter. It is you who is ignorant of your profession's past and arrogantly self righteous about its role in today's ongoing devastation of the family. Your profession has made law from lies, bigotry and socialist victimology. Reperations to blacks, reparations to women... what's the difference, right? I guess it's easier to keep taking the money and mouthing the party line than to step outside the box and look at the big picture.