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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.

Nick, I would really encourage you to get some counseling.

First off, when a man or woman loses custody as a result of a divorce decree and custody order, its noone's fault but their own. If they had married the right person, or lived up to their marital vows, they wouldnt be in that situation to begin with.

You seem to have a real problem with laying blame where it belongs. Listen close ~ if someone is unhappy with the terms of a custody order, it's their own fault. Not the judge, not society.

It was their choice to get married and have children to begin with. If you don't want to toss your hat into the ring of public law, then keep your johnson in the hangar to begin with.

That said, when a judge considers all the facts in front of him in making a custody decree, there is going to be a natural and eons old bias towards the mother. That is because when it comes to newbors, infants, toddlers and young children, the mother is more important. She nurses, she comforts, she mothers. That is NOT to say the father is unimportant. A concept you seem to have a real hang up about. That is just to say there is a natural bias because there is a natural fact ~ mothers ARE more important to a young child than fathers.