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[–]Killer_Danish 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Parental alienation" is almost always used against women in family courts to GREAT success by fathers. Any good, skeevy divorce lawyer knows this.

  1. Woman claims the reason for divorce is physical/emotional abuse

  2. Man counters, "judge, she's lying (like ALL women do!) and wants to keep me from MY children!"

  3. Judge almost always sides with man, sometimes punishing the women for "lying" by giving the man more custody

Parental alienation used as 'secret weapon' in custody battles, says expert

‘Parental alienation’: the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court

EDIT: Added some links

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Did not know this. Have you heard of the Bode Miller case? It made my blood boil.

[–]Killer_Danish 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She gave birth! If anybody should be able to name the child, it's her!

This happened about a decade ago to my old high school drama teacher. She got pregnant and boyfriend "noped!" out of there. Sometime after baby's birth, he suddenly wanted to flex his parental rights and eventually got partial custody. The first weekend she had to let her baby go overnight to the home of the guy who abandoned her when she was most vulnerable was just brutal...

Luckily, at some point, he just moved away and fell off the grid. Surprise happy ending!

Maybe Bode Miller will find out that parenting isn't all peaches n' cream and "nope!" out of there too...