"Werebat" wrote in message
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I'm looking for 20 sound-bite facts that could be e-mailed around to
spread awareness of what is actually going on in the USA regarding the
travesty of Justice that is the Family Court system, child custody, and
child support. I know there are so many wrongs being done (and they are
all interconnected) that it is hard to pick only a handful, but here are
some criteria:

1. The facts must be readable in a sentence or two
2. The facts must be accompanied by at least one link to documentation
that backs them up
3. I'd like to keep the list as humorous as possible. I know that sounds
strange, but humor will help keep the list looking like a list of gripes
from angry men and more like an expose of the farce that we men are
facing. There is nothing really humorous about any of this, of course,
but it would help if we could make light as much as possible to keep
people from shutting down and failing to read the whole thing. We want to
win hearts and minds here.

One statistic I can give as an example is the fact that women initiate 70%
of divorces, and mostly for personal reasons other than abuse. I know
I've seen documentation of this before, and it would be a good fact to use
because not many people are aware of it.

We could do something like "Top 20 myths about the Divorce Industry (or
Fathers, or what-have-you)", and list 20 misconceptions common to
Americans about all this mess. Using the above example, we might list the
MYTH: Most divorces are initiated by fathers who abandon their families,
followed by REALTY: (What I just said above), and DOCUMENTATION: (An
active online documentation)

We could send this list to various interested groups and e-mail people we
knew asking them to pass it on. It couldn't hurt, right?

If you could pick 20 facts about this awful system that you would like the
American public to know about, what would they be?
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Myth: Mothers are inherently nurturing and should be given default custody
in the "tender years."
Reality: Mothers and their paramours are much more likely to abuse/kill
their children.
You can find data on the US Dept of Justice website.
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