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4. Justice

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[font color="blue" size=4 face=courier]Disproportionate treatment[/font]
[Men get harsher sentences for the same crime.


The incarceration rate of men is 11x higher than women.

By way of comparison, here is the incarceration rates by race. Race is comparatively trivial as a determinant of going to jail compared to gender. Blacks are imprisoned at 6x the rate of whites. Statistically, a black man who is in jail is mostly there because he's a man.


[font color="blue" size=4 face=courier]Bias in family court[/font]

http://www.glennsacks.com/fathers_bear_the.htm

For example, a Stanford study of 1,000 divorced couples selected at random found that divorcing mothers were awarded sole custody four times as often as divorcing fathers in contested custody cases. A study of all divorce-custody decrees in Arlington County, Virginia over an 18 month period found that no father was given sole or even joint custody unless the mother agreed to it. According to Frank Bishop, the former director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement, almost 95% of custody cases in Virginia were won by mothers.

An Ohio study published in Family Advocate found that fathers seeking sole custody obtain it in less than 10% of cases, and a Utah study conducted over 23 years found similar results. According to the 2000 Census Bureau report, mothers comprise 85% of all custodial parents.