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Maryland Child Custody Discrimination Case
posted by Scott on Tuesday September 24, @07:04PM
from the news dept.
News Dan Scott writes, "I managed to obtain the NCHS data base for Marriage and Divorce, 1989-1995 by Sally C. Clarke and do a statistical analysis for the state of Maryland. I completed the analysis of the NCHS data by going past the gender data to the race data. Given the recent legal decision in Georgia, based primarily on the evidence supplied by Ms. Clarke's study, I can understand why the states complained under the euphemism that it was too costly to continue the statistical reporting. We now have the evidence that Maryland discriminated in making custody decisions. African American men are even worse off than men as a group. Any way you look at it, Maryland discriminates based on both race and gender. The "Best Interests of Children" as practiced in Maryland is nothing more than a euphemism for discrimination. We now need a test case to go before the Federal District Court, the Maryland Appeals Court has already ruled in Griffin v. Crane that determination of custody by gender is not permissible, however, the local judges are very clever in getting around an issue for their own personal beliefs and political agenda. We need a call to all men having recently lost a custody battle to file an appeal based on sex or race discrimination and have the State of Maryland Family Law system labeled as having committed discriminatory conduct requiring monitoring.

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Case particulars? (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Tuesday September 24, @08:55PM EST (#1)
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A random sample of cases involving each major ethnic group should have been taken, and these cases should have been examined to see if there were any special circumstances that would have shifted the case to the woman's favor (abuse, infidelity, etc.) That way, you'd be able to prove one of two things:

1. Men of race X were more likely than men as a whole to commit marriage-destroying behaviors A, B, and C;

or

2. Men of all races sampled showed similar tendencies in that area, with the mean and variance measurements being almost identical between them.

The results will dictate whether (1) men of a certain race should recognize that their fellows are more likely to act in certain detrimental ways, and support each other and actively discourage such destructive behavior, or (2) there is no logical reason why one race should fare worse in the family court system (i.e. the loss of the average divorce case was not self-inflicted).
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