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Well Nick, here's the things. I'm a child of divorce. My father was awarded custody in the 1970's, which was unheard of at that time. I'm also an attorney. It's a subject close to my heart, so I feel like my opinion is based in something other than the peanut gallery.

Yes, there's a bias towards women, and for men. But, I think there's enough science and common sense to back up that kind of bias. Young children need a mother more of the time than they need a father.

Isn't that logical? I mean, we are not talking about perfect families, perfect chilhoods. We are talking about moms and dads who are so damn selfish and sinful that they cannot make a marriage work, or live up to their commitments. Eventually, courts have to step in.

I believe there's a bias for mothers, and I believe its appropriate. All things being equal, a mother is more important to a young child than a father, and so IF (Note I say IF) there must be a choice as to "primary" custody, the bias should be for the mother in my opinion.

All things being equal, a mother is more important to a young child than a father

I understand perfectly. Gramsci was not stupid. He knew that widely-held and deeply-felt societal prejudices -- like that one above -- could be employed by skillful agitators to create institutional forms that would then go on to disrupt and eventually destroy the underpinnings of a society.

While you folks are out there saving children one by one, you are doing it on a such a scale that you have estranged half of this nation's children from their biological fathers. And you do more of it every day. Just how wonderful for children do you plan to make this society? Will you be done when no young man anywhere can envision himself ever having a family, because you folks are so efficient at removing these useless appendages called fathers from their childrens' lives?

This is what makes Gramsci's ideas so powerful. People like you pitch right in, destroying the very society you live in, and all the while you think you're doing good.

Yeah, you're just picking up the pieces after the other people broke it. Lawyers always say that. Nice living though, isn't it.