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- From: a.hoffmeyer@ATT.COM
- Subject: Sexual Discrimination
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- David Garrod writes in soc.men:
- >In article <1993Jan18.104242.1644@actcnews.res.utc.com>,
- Bob.Clarke%bbs@actcnews.res.utc.com (Bob Clarke) writes:
- >> ....
- >> Does anybody know what percentage of fathers get custody. Both nation wide
- >> and for the state of Ct would be helpful. My child is 4 1/2 and I have been
- >> told "not a chance".
- >
- >
- >>From a survey of Indiana Court Orders, August 1992:
- >
- >Sole custody to mother 82.6%
- >Sole custody to father 9.6%
- >Joint legal custody 2.8%
- >Split custody 5.0% (Split custody is each parent getting
- >sole custody of at least one child.)
- >
- >For Connecticut statstics, I would suggest you contact one of the
- >father`s groups there. The Children`s Rights Council used to have
- >a CT chapter: 44 Franklin St., Trumbull, CT 06611, (203) 452-9624
- >
- >David Garrod
-
- In 1974 a man in Columbus, Ohio named Dave Jordan filed a suit against
- the Franklin Country Domestic Relations Court for sexual discrimination.
- He named specific parties to the suit--judges and referees. At that time
- the law in this state said that judges and referees were to award custody
- to parents without any gender bias. Amazingly, the judges and referees
- were awarding custody to women in well over 90% of all cases--and there
- was no such thing as any form of joint custody.
-
- This case took about six years to come to loggerheads. During the case,
- it was submitted to the US Supreme Court on appeals. The US Supreme
- Court considered this a domestic relations case and refused to take it,
- sending it back down for review at the Ohio Appellate Court level with
- some direction. The Ohio Appellate Court, in the end, recommended that the
- defendents settle--otherwise they may lose and the case would have
- far-reaching consequences, establishing a precedent which could sweep the
- nation and cause widespread legal reform. And NO ONE wanted that.
-
- Yet, here we see a state, Indiana, that, just as every other state in the
- US, discriminating against men with total disregard for gender fairness.
- If women could illustrate that they were being discriminated against with
- such disregard, and so unjustly, they would surely be filing sexual
- discrimination charges against all parties involved. And, they would win
- these cases.
-
- So, what I am asking, or suggesting is this: Why don't we look at this
- avenue of approach for correcting the injustices in the system? Any
- precedent establishing case could inspire reform throughout the country,
- and, at the very least, it could garner much needed attention on the
- plight of oppressed, divorcing or divorced fathers.
-
- Is it unreasonabe to incorporate such a goal into the mission of divorced
- fathers's rights groups? If 52 class-action lawsuits were filed
- simultaneously in the states and territories, the courts and the media
- would have to sit up and take notice. And maybe, at last, the charade
- would be exposed for what it is: sexual discrimination.
-
- Comments, anyone?
-
- Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM
-
- P.S. Also posted to alt.dads-rights, soc.men, soc.women and misc.legal.
-