I think everyone knows circumstances like you’ve mentioned. I know of several - including an ex-wife with a past drug conviction, and a recent stint in the hospital for drug over-dose - who kept custody of her kids - despite legal challenges and a substancial amount of money spent on documentation and lawyers.
I’ve seen a man lose his job, and sell everything he had (tv, CD, DVD, games, bed, living room and clothes) trying to keep current. His current wife and kids are going without - so he can pay child support to a wife who is re-married and in a household that earns 5+x what he is raising his family on. Yep, when he was working he was raising his family on less than $50K, and his ex-wife is remarried and earning $300+K/yr.
Men have no rights - we are basically slaves. Many men are paying child support for children that they have not fathered - they just happened to be one of the people who had sex with the woman. The judges are looking for “the good of the child” without regard to justice, or any other considerations.
Let’s see, did this genius by any chance have an affair while married? God will not be mocked.
“The judges are looking for “the good of the child” without regard to justice, or any other considerations.”
Wrong: The judges are just looking to feed the pockets of the lawyers, the case workers, the nanny state. Every action is anti-child/family and anti-society.