Do you think father's rights exisit, or should they get equal, less or more access to their kids?

Question

Case: dad reg visits for years, mom n dad get in fight, mom takes kids, makes up story, turns kids against dad, gets restraining order cant prove it tho and dads rights to kids suspended, its been a year and a half now. dad danger to two kids with ex but not 2 kids he lives with. courts are ignoring all evidence that mom is abuser (emotional) yet dad loses rights.....child support gets raised from $466 to $700 no visits....see a problem?

Answer 1

Interesting...I guess it depends on the circumstances.

Answer 2

Funny, I wonder if you are talking about me??    My son is 7 months old.  I voluntarily provide support by buying diapers, formula, clothes, bottles, etc. (more monthly than the local Child Support Division requires)  I ask for time with him weekly and am usually denied for one of a dozen excuses by his mother.  She now is trying to get Welfare and has threatened to quit her job and do "whatever else" is necessary to get more assistance (money from the state)  She works part time as a delivery driver for a pizza company and has made no effort to find additional or better employment.  She lives with her parents (both disabled) and grandmother (senile) in a 3 bedroom house of about 1500sq ft.  Both her and her mother have been on anti-psychotics on and off thru the years.   I live in a 3000 sq ft house with 5 bedrooms and 2 room mates (both employed) and work full-time in a medical clinic assisting the doctor, maintaining the website and doing other computer related tasks.  I also teach martial arts and have been told on many occasions what a good father I am (or would make, in the past).   So you tell me what rights dose my SON deserve, what rights do I deserve?  Am I and, more so, my son, to be punished because of men that never learned what it is to be a MAN?  Where are my, and my son's, EQUAL rights?

Answer 3

Alot of courts are biased towards mothers even if the father is a better parent.

Answer 4

i think as long as a father takes care of his kids { pays child support , does not beat or molest them , etc. }   he should have just as much right to his children as the mother. after all,  i seem to remember it takes 2 people to make them...1/2 mom 1/2 dad....   and it should not be up to the courts to place the kids, it should be worked out between the parents AND  the children.  if a teen wants dad over mom or mom over dad, it should be the teen's choice, not a judge !!!

Answer 5

I don't think that men have the "instinct" as women do to take care of their children. So I do think that they should have access to their kids as much as the mother unless your talking if a legal situation happened, I think the men should get less access.

Answer 6

Sexism.

The law sees women as the more better/stronger/most experienced parent,

mainly why she is given custody.

In most cases that is...

Answer 7

depends on the circumstances

if their a good person and want to be part of the family and the mums just a cow that wants nothing to do with him then more

in normal familys equal

and in situations like my father if their a rapist or dead beat then none

Answer 8

Depends on the father.  Fathers that are dangerous around children shouldn't have rights to be around even their own but fathers that are atleast trying to be a good father should get to spend plenty of time with their child(ren) and should be given the chance for custody if the mother isn't fit to raise a child (drug abuse, alcoholic, abusive....).  I don't however think they should have the right to just take a child just because they are the father.  I think fathers can be an important part of a childs life but they shouldn't always have control because some men just aren't meant to be fulltime fathers.

I think if the parents are both fit to raise the child and they live in the same school district then 50/50 should be considered after the child is over a year old and open communications should be maintained but if the parents live more than 1 hr apart then eery other weekend works best because 50/50 would disturb their schooling.  Also think that open visits should be made in regards to family events so that if the fathers family is having a reunion or something that he can get the child and for big events like that but the mother should have them for her big events too.

Answer 9

As long as they are a good father, and want to see their kids, I think mothers and fathers should split 50/50.  The every other weekend and holiday thing is wrong in my eyes.  Why not let the father help raise his child.  A lot of people dont do the 50/50 thing because then the father wont have to pay child support.