Saturday, May 11, 2013

Equal rights for child custody fathers


AFTER reading “There is never a happy divorce” (The Star, April 3), I agree with the points raised by Ng Shu Tsung.
Divorce cases are getting very common these days with parents of young children simply not bothered about the children’s welfare.
There is no give-and-take policy.
When things cannot be settled amicably between couples, the court decides on the custody of the child.
In all cases, the mothers get the opportunity to raise the children while the fathers are given only limited access to see and spend time with them.
That’s the way it always has been and things haven’t changed.
This might be due to the fact that traditionally, men work and the women stay at home to raise the children.
Although that is less so these days, there is still a bias towards women in child custody cases.


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