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Originally Posted by fredr123
This.
There is a dude/friend bias at play too in any story you're likely to hear. Father's getting the shaft are probably the exception and those stories probably stick out more.
Plus, you tend to relate to your friends and believe their side of the story. When you don't have both sides of the story, it's a lot easier to think that your friend Bill whom you have known since elementary school is getting hosed over by his ex-wife than it is to come to terms with having befriended a deadbeat. Cognitive dissonance.
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I'd agree but I also think we have a society and a legal system that doesn't really look at men as parents in a divorce, they are still seen as predominantly just breadwinners, I think this puts guys in a position where they can lose their sense of responsibility, they have limited time with their kids anyway, they get laid off or the like and feel like they arn't really proper dads anyway so they bugger off.