What you spake is the truth. if you get assailed, it's from liars.
Not by me.
**I know I will be assailed for this, here**
Not by me!
You will be agreed with from this corner
I agree with you.
I was a single parent father of 3 small sons back in the late 1980's. (They are all grown and turned out fine). I know well how the system is stacked against fathers. They are portrayed by the liberal social workers as somehow unfit as parents, but totally capable and liable as financial providers and only as financial providers for their children.
Fatherhood and motherhood share 50% of the responsibility each, but require 100% of the effort and participation in child raising. It is almost like women are being encouraged to be single mothers because they get all the perks of assistance.
Quote: "( I know I will be assailed for this, here)"
Not be me you won't. I have a friend who was raked over the coals by a lefty Judge. He has a divorce decree that specifically states his son is emancipated once he turns 18. Sure, he still has to pay for college etc, but the difference is that the payments no longer go to his ex, they go straight to the college etc. Despite this decree, the Judge has refused to allow him to stop payments and is also requiring him to pay college tuition. The Judge also refused to even grant him a hearing when the law on this matter is clear as clear can be. Now he has to take an appeal and wait a year, all the time continuing to pay for a child who is, well, no longer a child. In effect, if this order stood he would pay child support to his ex forever.
Well, you won't be assailed by me. I only wish I had more than two thumbs to put up. No-fault divorce has been great for half-assed lawyers. Claims of "spousal abuse" which are all-too-often completely fabricated give women the upper hand to take nearly everything, especially the children. I think most of them get some "Lifetime Movie" picture of finding a "new Dad" and creating some bull---"blended family" so the want "old Dad" out of the picture entirely. I have 2 kids who are now teenagers and I have fought and won in my relationships with them - paid my dues to where no one else would ever have been able to "play Dad" with them. But, it's not easily done. I wouldn't get married again for the simple reason that there's too much to be lost - and way too easily.
100% right on....