by Ricky Wallace

Created on: June 24, 2009   Last Updated: June 26, 2009

Yes, fathers should have equal custody. The first reason is that by not giving a father custody rights, then the law is discriminating on the basis of gender. Women who oppose this are being sexist and discriminatory: they want women to have the rights, not men. It's also an ad hominem fallacy: because the parent is a male, he is an inferior parent.

Second, the male is just as important as the female. Everyone knows that the ideal family is one with a mother and a father. I am a teacher, and it seems to me that kids who liive in single-mother-centered homes are very disruptive. The kids need the male strength influence of a father. Is this chauvinistic? No, it's naturally true.

Third, and some people might not like this one, the issue is a matter of equity: the children are chattels that are half father's and half mother's. So, if the parents are both decent parents, the law of equity dictates that both parents should share custody. This is siginificantly better than just gving the children to the mother, relegating the father to visitation once every two weeks and every other Christmas or other discrminatory bullshit.

I am divorced and have an ex-spouse who won't work, has been cited for mental abuse of my two children, and has alienated my two daughters from me-not to mention that she has Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, which has caused my children lots of trips to the psychologists, psychotherapists, two visits to the mental ward of a hospital, and both failing a grade in school. Look at all the things that divorced mothers do to their ex-spouses: prevent visitation, file false allegations of abuse, brainwash the children by saying negative things about the father, making the father go to court and spend lots of money on lawyers.

The court system is heavily biased against fathers. I know this because I had to go to court eight to ten times just to restore visitation with my children. It's difficult to believe that men would make laws and savage their own gender in court, especially when dealing bad mothers. Also, the government agencies that look out for children are heavily biased against fathers. Even though my ex-spouse was indicated for psychological abuse, and had a psychologist recommend that the children be remove from her custody, she retained custody of them. The joke in South Carolina is that the Department of Social Services doesn't remove children from harm (bad mothers): they make them stay in harm's way by leaving them with the bad mothers.

If women should lose custody of their children like men do, then it would be a national issue: women's rights. As it is now in most states, men are egregiously discriminated against by the law. This is the most important rights issue today, but do you see minorities, women, and the Left Wing marching on Washington, DC? No, you don't because it is a male issue, and it's not politically correct to fight for mens' rights.

I'll debate anyone and win on this issue because it is one of simple logic and moral ethics and I have the experience to prove it.

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