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One word: Custody.
Another word: Alimony.

Unless there are extreme circumstances such as the woman tried murdering one of the children (and even then) family courts all over the US automatically assume the woman is the better parent to have custody and that she should have alimony *and* child support. Even if she’s a drunk, drug addict, serial cheater who can’t hold a job, they’ll give the kids to her and bleed the man beyond white in transfer payments to her.

If, during the course of the divorce, she swears the man owns firearms and that he threatened her (even if he was out of the country, unable to contact her in any way at the time), the courts will automatically grant a restraining order for domestic violence against the man (which means there goes your security clearance and/or trusted position at private firms with moral character clauses) and the police will come seize all your firearms. Recent case in point: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3275173/posts

If that’s not bad enough, the courts will display similar behavior when the woman makes accusations of infidelity and domestic violence (even without firearms) - she will be believed even if she doesn’t present any proof whatsoever. If the man makes similar accusations, well, no amount of proof will be enough unless she admits it happened. And even then sometimes that’s not enough.

How do I know? I’m the child of one of these divorces. The court screwed up in awarding custody, quite badly. As such, I’ve watched the exact same thing happen to clients, friends and family over and over. Woman gets everything, man gets nothing.

[“with the ‘family’ court system being such a disaster for men”

How is that?]

Here is an example. The county where I live has a family court judge who always and I mean always finds in the favor of the woman in divorce cases. He himself is divorced. I know of three women who got divorced in his court and were then his girl friends. Another reason I hate lawyers and some judges.