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Title: Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part (Family and Public Policy, I) by Andrew J. Cherlin, Frank F., Jr. Furstenberg ISBN: 0-674-65577-X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50

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Summary: Biased against men
Comment: The authors of this book go out of their way to portray fathers in the worst possible light. There attitude is that the diminished relationship between fathers and their children following divorce is entirely the fault of the father, and furthermore that this is no big deal. From their point of view, the man should just pay and go away. They are dismissive of the idea of joint custody, down right hostile to the idea of fathers getting custody, and seem to think that fathers are basically irrelevent to children, aside from their economic impact, even in intact families. Apparently all the information they gather on divorced dads comes from their ex spouses, at least that seems to be the only parents they ever quote. Their only substantitive policy recomendation is to raise the level of child support payments and ever stricter enforcement of them. They argue that the standard of living of the man goes up after divorce, which seems to indicate that they have never met a divorce man. They do not even mention that child support payments are tax free to the mother and non tax deductable to the father, a rather glaring and down right deceptive ommision in doing any assesment of the economic impact of child support. All in all this book is so biased against men as to almost reach the level of hate speech.