The Custody Hoax [Paperback]

Wayne R. Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 1992

This book is written by a lawyer who found the prejudice against fathers as parents is still so great among judges that there are almost no circumstances in which those fathers can remain more than visitors to their children after contested custody cases. But there's more. At least fourteen state courts have done bias studies, and the result of those studies and other government statistics are presented in this book to confirm the futility of fathers seeking custody of their children in a court of law. There are, of course, many people who agree with the prejudice that fathers cannot be good parents and should not have custody of their children, and that is not illegal. But the courts are bound by the law in deciding child custody and support cases, and the law requires that men be accorded equal rights in those cases just as the law requires that women be accorded equal rights in jobs and education. Women, however, can enforce their equal legal rights by lawsuit against those who illegally discriminate against them, but no father can sue to enforce his equal legal rights in child custody and support cases. Obviously, equal rights cannot be reserved only for one gender; equal rights means equal for both genders. So, either men must have enforceable equal rights as the law requires in child custody and support matters, or we must go back to less than equal rights for women to jobs if we are going to continue to impose unequal traditional roles on divorced men. The Custody Hoax discusses all the illogical and illegal things that will happen in and after divorce to separate fathers from their children and their money. Then, since there could not be any worse method of resolving custody and support matters than the illegal one now imposed by the government, The Custody Hoax discusses the best of the many better ways of resolving custody disputes that would harm children and adults much less than the present scheme: a scheme that survives primarily because it keeps so many highly-paid lawyers employed.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

This question of equal rights for fathers is avoided by the media like the plague. Reporters who should know better, or should find the truth before making statements, keep claiming without any substantiation that discrimination against fathers in child custody and support matters was bad but is getting better. They have been claiming this for decades through which there has been no getting better but a lot of getting worse. It has become common to read that men win custody in 10, 35, 60 and 70 percent of cases, but all of these claims certainly cannot be true. In fact none are true. The percentage of men winning custody in contested cases in court is statistically insignificant, and has been for a very long time. But for a variety of reasons many people wish to avoid the reality by disbelieving the obvious. If you know a father that has custody of his children, there is almost certainly an agreement on file in the court where the mother agreed to the father having custody, or the mother has not appeared nor made any effort in court to have custody of the children. It is very rare that a mother is so bad a parent that the court will not give her sole custody.

On a more basic level consider this reality: it is illegal in every state to jail any person for a debt. If women were jailed for debt, there would be an angry outcry in the media. I have confidence that if some minority were jailed for debt, the media also would reveal the injustice. Yet, divorced fathers are a minority and are routinely jailed for child-support debt, and there is no mention in the media of the fact or the unlawful conduct by the court in jailing these innocent fathers. Or what if women were forced to work for the benefit of others just as black poeple once were? Who would not recognize that such injustice was made illegal by the Civil War and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States? Now picture a divorced father in court being told, as he will be, that he must work for the benefit of the children he may now only visit. It happens with certainty in courts, but it is not reported as an injustice as it would be if it similarly effected any other minority or women. Has any reporter ever asked any judge how they can legally force a father to work and pay when forced labor and all of its badges have been totally outlawed in the United States?

There are still many actions and attitudes of judges, lawyers and social science professionals that are illogical and illegal. You will not read about them in the media, but you can read about them in The Custody Hoax. Whether you agree or disagree that it is alright for divorced fathers to be treated unequally and illegally, the questions that are raised and the facts that are considered in this book deserve to be subjected to the open public debate that exposes what is good or evil in our society.

About the Author

A lawyer and scientist, Wayne R. Anderson specialized in cases seeking justice and equal rights for fathers and children in several western states. His experiences ultimately led to the inescapable conclusion that the courts have an overriding policy of granting cusotdy only to mothers in contested custody cases. Even bias studies by the courts themselves established this unlawful prejudice, and this author eventually accumulated a mass of evidence to support this fact. To fathers who will cling to any hope and resist accepting reality, the author suggests they check the statistics in their local courts and check out the claims of lawyers to have won custody for fathers before paying thousands for useless lawyer services. And of course read The Custody Hoax.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Vindicator Books (December 28, 1992)
• ISBN-10: 096724630X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967246307
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,921,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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