[paultopia]

This is astonishingly paranoid, even conspiracy-theory promoting. The writer claims at several points that divorce law in Italy is (allegedly) unfair because judges know that fathers typically have more resources to engage in litigation appealing bad judgments, and hence more lawyers and domestic violence clinics will get paid. Where is the evidence for such an over-the-top accusation?

The fact of the matter is that divorce is terrible, and there's no good way to allocate resources after the fact. Of course there isn't---divorce is fundamentally the destruction of all kinds of financial assets (all the economies of scale in the marriage) and the upsetting of huge social, financial, and geographic commitments, even without children being involved. Of course everyone is going to be dissatisfied with however the courts divide that poisoned pie.

[albertopv]

I'm italian and I live in Italy. My wife's parents divorced when she was 8. My cousin divorced. I can totally confirm what's written in this post. 99% of the times it's not even in question with which parent children should stay. Anecdotally, but it is well known that divorced fathers are the new poors (sorry, couldn't find english article): https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/padri-separati-quando-l-asse...

Anecdotally, you should really live in Italy to understand its terrible legal system.

[giantg2]

You can look at case law and common law for the roots of this, even in the US. The entire point of child support (especially in cases where there was no marriage) is so that the state does not have to pay to raise the child.

I can't speak for the 3rd party institutions like lawyers being paid.