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by c_prompt 1681 days ago
> If men file for custody they get 50/50. Men who ask for full custody also statistically win more often.

You're pulling that statistic from where? At least from the US census bureau, here are the stats from 2002 that go all the way back to 1994 [1]: "In the spring of 2002, an estimated 13.4 million parents had custody of 21.5 million children under 21 years of age whose other parent lived somewhere else. About 5 of every 6 custodial parents were mothers (84.4 percent) and 1 in 6 were fathers (15.6 percent), proportions statistically unchanged since 1994 (Table A). Overall, 27.6 percent of all children under 21 living in families had a parent not living in the home."

[1] https://valme.io/c/mens-rights/88qqs/a-tale-of-two-children-...

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The statistics you cite are related, but doesn't refute the point that men who ask for full custody win more often. I don't know if that's true or not, but it can be true and also only 1/6 custodial parents being fathers can be true. It simply requires that significantly fewer men ask for full custody.