home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / alt / dadsrig / 3524 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-27  |  1.9 KB
  1. Xref: sparky alt.dads-rights:3524 soc.men:23322 soc.women:23097 misc.legal:23381
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sequent!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!reed!batcomputer!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!ellis!thf2
  3. From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.dads-rights,soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal
  5. Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145634.21622@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. Date: 26 Jan 93 14:56:34 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan26.011724.27341@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <1993Jan26.035102.3766@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan26.085757.6320@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
  9. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  10. Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
  11. Organization: University of Chicago
  12. Lines: 20
  13.  
  14. In article <1993Jan26.085757.6320@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:
  15. >Given that women are awarded either sole custody or primary custody
  16. >(usually something like a 75/25 split) in roughly 85% of all divorces
  17. >in this country in which the divorcing couple are parents of children
  18. >under age eighteen, despite laws in virtually every state that
  19. >emphatically set forth that judges should NOT be biased by gender in
  20. >awarding said custody of children, are the judges and referees of the
  21. >domestic relations courts of the United States of America guilty of
  22. >sexual discrimination?
  23.  
  24. Not necessarily.  Equal opportunity does not equal equal outcome.
  25. I see no evidence that parental litigants are, on average, similarly 
  26. situated so that one would expect a 50/50 split.  Furthermore, family
  27. law I have seen, whenever there is disparate treatment, benefits men
  28. at the expense of women.  For all I know, women should be receiving
  29. custody 92% of the time instead of 85% of the time.
  30. -- 
  31. ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
  32. standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
  33. the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
  34.