Mums get custody in 60% of cases despite new laws ~ 15% of child custody disputes result in 50-50 split: Family Court

David Schetzer from the Law Institute of Victoria knows best what children want as he states below they don't want to change houses every week. In that statement he sums up all that is wrong with legal people and their know-it-all attitude. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation people just write what these self-styled experts say without any thought to actually ask a child or better yet a whole lot of children to see if having both parents in their lives is better. It is frustrating to see such silly unsubstantiated drivel from people who should know better - or at least you would think they should.MJM Figures released by the Family Court of Australia show a small percentage of child custody disputes resulted in a 50-50 split. Changes were made to family law in 2006 forcing the Family Court to consider evenly divided custody between parents. The Family Court has released figures of parenting orders and an analysis of the shared parental responsibility. Of 1,448 custody disputes finalised in the court in the past financial year, only 15 per cent resulted in the parenting being split 50-50. The figure was 19 per cent in cases where parents came to an early agreement. In 60 per cent of cases, the Family Court made orders that the children spend more than 50 per cent of time with their mother. In 17 per cent of cases, the Family Court made orders that the children spend more than 50 per cent of time with their father. David Schetzer from the Law Institute of Victoria says in many cases equal custody is not what is best for the children. "I think simplistically if you were to ask yourself would you be prepared or would like to live in one house for seven days of the week and another house for another seven days of the next week you might very well conclude that that is not in your best interests," he said. He says it was unnecessary to introduce laws relating to equal parenting arrangements in child custody disputes. The figures do not take into account orders made in the Federal Magistrates Court. 15pc of child custody disputes result in 50-50 split: Family Court - ABC News (Australian Broadcast Corp. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/24/2524641.htm?section=australia 1 of 1 23/03/2009 10:30 PM

Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists

Another feminist sees the trend. This is good!MJM

Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists

Novelist condemns female culture that revels in humiliating other sex

14 August 2001

Fiachra Gibbons, Guardian arts correspondent http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4238674,00.html

The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest.Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a "lazy and insidious" culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men. "I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed," the 81-year-old Persian-born writer said yesterday. "Great things have been achieved through feminism. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation.

"We have many wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is happening to men? Why did this have to be at the cost of men? "I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men. "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives." Lessing said the teacher tried to "catch my eye, thinking I would approve of this rubbish". She added: "This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing. "It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not "It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests. "Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

Lessing claimed that much of the "great energy" whipped up by feminism had "been lost in hot air and fine words when we should have been concentrating on changing laws."We have got the pay but only real equality comes when child care is sorted out and it hasn't been yet, well not for those who really need it anyway". Lessing also revealed she is not going to write a third volume of her autobiography because she did not want to offend so "many great and eminent people by reminding them of their silliness. I just can't be bothered, to be honest"