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- From: bouche2@server.uwindsor.ca (BOUCHER DAVID )
- Newsgroups: alt.dads-rights,soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
- Message-ID: <2523@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:52:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.085757.6320@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <qy4ZXB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca>
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- In article <qy4ZXB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca> lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca writes:
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- >Just one question; Does anyone have real stats on how often men ask for
- >sole or primary custody, in comparison to how often they are actually
- >awarded it?
-
- >For example, if men ask for some kind of custody in only 30% of all divorce
- >cases, how many of *that* 30% are awarded sole or primary custody?
-
- The answer to that would be misleading or irrelevant unless one could also
- show how many men were discouraged from asking because they knew the
- odds of winning are so poor, or because they didn't have $10,000 to contest
- a decision against them, or because they didn't want to get hit with a
- phony child-abuse accusation.
-
- I imagine one might argue that almost 100% of all blacks who ran for political
- office in Mississippi in the 1920's were elected, and so therefore there was
- really no racial discrimination in Mississippi...
-
- - db
-