Iowa Senate Judiciary Approves Law Presuming Joint Custody

Anyone else think it's ironic (at the least) that this story comes with a picture of Hillary Clinton in it?

I hope people understand that "joint custody" and "shared parenting" are NOT the same thing.

The state of Wisconsin has default joint custody but it STILL gives one parent (usually the mother) PRIMARY CUSTODY. That title carries more weight than people realize. Don't let politicians pull the wool over your eyes, joint custody is a band aid, not a cure.

I think over the next 5-10 years, there will gradually be more and more father-friendly rulings and legislation, and this will give the first major boost to men's rights activists and men in general. It will give much-needed impetus to our movement, though of course feminists will fight it every single step of the way. I also predict that the next major victory after that, will be more hiring of male teachers (which will require special incentives to get men into the field), and more gender-neutral education policies and practices.

-ax

...I'm not sure about the second one - more male teachers. It might come to more gender segregated classes/schools before that becomes reality.

I still don't see an end in sight to the exodus of males from the teaching profession because every day it seems there is a new law passed that demonizes men as violent beasts or criminalizes another aspect of male sexuality. We'll need to first and foremost halt the production of misandric laws (a multi-billion dollar industry) altogether and then work to bringing existing misandric laws into balance or doing away with them entirely if they are so narrowly focussed on demonizing something masculine that no hope of creating gender balance exists.

When a student can fabricate out of spite a story that can shred a male teachers career in the blink of an eye with full support of the entirety of state's relevant resources how do you propose getting men to want to join the teaching profession?

Offer a million dollar starting salary? Sounds great until you get 'nifonged' cause some brat didn't want to do their homework and every sent that million dollar salary goes to defending against fictional charges while at the same time the career that brought that income vanishes regardless of the outcome.

Even all male schools wouldn't be safe under the current climate because it would only be a matter of time before some almost certainly fictitious (but that never stopped anyone) sex abuse of boys by evil Satan worshiping gay male teachers erupted.

Getting men back to teaching is gonna be a hell of a hard fight because it intersects with many aspects of men's rights.

Father's rights will be easier to win because laws granting rights to fathers will be extremely narrowly defined to biological fathers in specific contexts only and will not greatly impact men's over all rights.

Misandry will still reign supreme after fathers are granted rights. Men will be trusted near their own children but I guarantee they'll still be looked at with a suspicious eye near anyone else's kids. Plus father's rights will do sweat fudge all for single men who will actually drop in status to the lowest form of humanity currently tied with divorced dads but once they move up to the level of human being all negative attention towards men will focus on single guys.