Courting Disaster

From the Island Staten, between New York and New Jersey, comes a series of articles on the dire situation fathers often face when it comes to gaining custody (or even visitation) as a family breaks up. Dads sometimes do win, but there is nearly as large a cost to winning as to losing. If only we could go back to the good old days when dads were always in control.

This isn't to suggest that only Staten Island courts disfavor the father. The bureaucracy is to vast and and soul sucking and arbitrary about whether or not a man can keep his kids that it not only harms the good guys, it can make a man who names his kid Adolf Hitler [Earlier: Naming Rights], New Jersey's Heath Campbell into a nearly sympathetic character.