More Fathers Receiving Child Custody after Divorce
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 1:56pm PST
Recently, a team of attorneys that work exclusively on family law cases published a study that found that more fathers are being awarded primary
child custody after divorcing their spouses.
Throughout the 1990s, the Short Family Law and Attorney Litigators claimed that even though most courts claimed they did not prefer giving custody to mothers over fathers, most states ruled to give mothers custody of their children.
Today, this has changed as many estimates show that almost 50% of fathers are given child custody.
The report states that, "Presently, a growing number of families have stay-at-home dads and mothers who fill the role of primary earner and household provider. And as the number of domestic dads has increased, so has the legal system's willingness to award fathers child custody."
Another interesting claim the firm makes with their report is that as the economy has suffered, more men were given primary custody after losing their jobs. By the middle of 2009, 75% of the people who lost their jobs were in fact men.
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