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"Men who walk away from Mom -probably to a young trophy wife- walk away from their kids in far too many cases."

It's truly unfortunate when otherwise well intentioned and legitimately conservative women (taking your FR homepage at face value) offer up assumptions having no basis in fact and which plainly result from passive acceptance of the msn's anti male, pro radical feminist propaganda.

Aside from your statement ignoring any possible wrong-doing on the part of the mother in the article cited which may have contributed to the divorce, women - not men - initiate the vast majority of such actions largely because they know that, thanks to no-fault divorce and overt gender bias within the "family" Courts, their odds of "winning" are extremely high.

Please see: "These Boots Are Made for Walking: Why Wives File for Divorce" - authored by Margaret F. Brinig and Douglas W. Allen and published by George Mason University School of Law & Simon Fraser University Department of Economics
Source: http://fathersforlife.org/doc/boots113.doc
Note: about halfway down the cited page above there's a link to a well documented Word chart which very conclusively shows which gender it is that initiates most divorce actions.

I know four women who are raising kids by themselves. Dad sends money but never shows up to visit. One Dad told his child not to call as it wakes the new baby...he'll call when he gets a chance. A little girl comes home with my daughter and my teenage girl watches her sister and the other little girl. I have seen this child cry when Dad didn't show up-no phone calls or anything. When I called he said he meant to call...it's a sad situation. This is not a conservative issue. It happens The Dads have started new families and the kids were part of their old life. I know several woman who left their kids too. I feel bad for the kids. If you read my Blurb on Free Republic, you know I am happily married to a terrific guy. But it's a sad world out there. I have been a Director of a Day Care and taught Chemistry. Kid are treated like dirt today in my opinion. I work in business now because I am home one hour after my kids get home. My husband is usally home when they arrive. All the kids in the neighborhood come to our house in the afternoon for snacks and/or homework help (no one is home at quite a few houses). I live in a upper middle class neighborhood; this is not a class issue either.