As one who has been involved in court proceedings (as expert witness) in custody cases, I can tell you there are many, many bitter women who will go to extreme and prolonged lengths to alienate children from their father. The woman who fall into this category feel that since she hates the father, the children should as well.
All Im saying is this certainly wont help the mans candidacy.
you're right, my parents are divorced. I'll let you guess which one cannot bear to have the other parent's name mentioned and which one would be really very happy if we had nothing to do with the other parent. It makes for very uncomfortable family reunions during special occasions. Not a pleasant feeling, but there's not much we can do, we have a parent who made the choice to remain bitter, even though it's been many many years since they split up.
However, we, my siblings and I, are older and all married, we can see why our parents couldn't make it.