The myth of the "deadbeat dad" needs to end. Women are the ones who initiate 70%-90% of divorces and oppose joint custody. Men want to stay, its women who are breaking up families.

Deadbeat dads are not a myth. If you're doing something that's causing someone to leave (and they may be doing things too), then you can't expect them to stay. Men all too often put very little effort into their marriages, often becoming like another child. If you break up and don't care for you're child, her breaking up wasn't the problem, you not putting the effort in is. The child doesn't cease to exist after a divorce. Men simply, often, don't want to care for them. They often weren't in the marriage, or not doing enough, hence the divorce. Women get the kids, because they're usually the one taking care of the kid in the marriage. Of course they're not going to want the Dad to have them and hope he steps up. He didn't take care of them jointly in the marriage, why will he take care of them jointly now? This is not every man, in or out of a marriage. But the kind of man delusional enough to make a post like this is. Kevin Samuels being a deadbeat as well makes it more hilarious, and now I realize you may just be a clever troll... After watching the video, these men talk about duty but then ignore the duty to put effort into the marriage so it's successful and happy. Deadbeats making lazy excuses to go along with their lazy parenting.