2009 Study on Child support: men only win 15% of sole custody (85%females). Of that 30% of fathers awarded Child support (54%females). of those awarded, 27% haven't received payment (29% female), and of the payments received they have received 54% of them (62% female). Table 2 has all data

T-rex_with_a_gun · 2012-12-30T00:49:45+00:00

First question: What percentage of men asked for sole custody? Is the 15% reflecting 15% of the men who requested sole custody?

2012-12-29T22:49:12+00:00

I looked at the numbers for past years, and at least it seems like things are slowly improving over time (in that even fewer men got custody in the past). Earliest year I saw data for was 1993, not sure if they had earlier data or not.

2012-12-30T18:58:24+00:00

I believe I saw this statistic before only it listed men as having 15% sole custody, women 60% sole custody, and 25% shared custody. I briefly looked at the data but couldn't find a part that referencd shared custody. Anybody?

2012-12-30T03:45:42+00:00

Men don't often ask for sole custody because they know the rules are biased against them and it will cost a lot of wasted money for lawyers fees to even try.

However, when the mother is clearly and demonstrably unfit then men do ask for sole custody and often do get it based on the evidence.

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