In the South and Midwest, the general consensus is that children should be with their mother. Well-adjusted men can get absolutely fucked in custody battles a lot of places in both region's. In real life, I’ve known the following women who’ve kept custody of her kids when the perfectly normal husband was denied: a woman with a history of drug abuse, a woman with serious mental illness, a woman who was unemployed, and a woman who made active threats of violence to her ex-husband.