Word: robbed
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...Rob J. Kulathinal, a post-doctoral student in evolutionary genetics, said he found Watson’s speech “very provocative...
...Then there are fathers like fiftysomething Sydney executive Rob (his real name and other particulars cannot be published for legal reasons), who's spent more than $A20,000 on legal fees trying to secure just that result. Over dinner a few years ago, Rob's wife stunned him by announcing she wanted to end their 11-year marriage. He now has a new partner and his ex-wife has remarried, and they're still wrangling over how often he sees the kids - a teenage boy and a little girl. Rob says his ex-wife has tried to demonize...
...wretched world of the non-custodial parent, Rob's ex-wife hasn't been his only source of frustration. A bungle by his solicitors, he says, locked him into making child support payments that rose if his income increased, but stayed the same if it fell. Sure enough, he was retrenched from his high-paying job and for a few months received unemployment benefits. Filing for bankruptcy was an option, but there was a catch. After five years a bankrupt receives automatic discharge from nearly all debts, though one exception is child support. Fortunately, Rob landed...
...appearances a reasonable man, Rob says in many areas of life women doubtless feel powerless, but in the Family Court the opposite is true. More than once, he says, a judge has given his ex-wife more than she's asked for. "The mother is seen as the nurturer," he says. The attitude is, "she knows how to relate to children, while fathers...
...There's some objective support for Rob's view. In 2001, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family published a paper by Melbourne academic Lawrie Moloney, who analyzed 22 of what he called "closely contested parenting judgments" made by the Family Court in the decade 1988-99. Moloney chose cases devoid of issues of violence or abuse, reasoning that these would be more revealing of judges' "core assumptions." He concluded that "presumptions about gender were an important aspect of judicial thinking . . . I found that mothers were likely to be successful if they appeared to conform to a maternal...