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Discrimination Against Men Leads to Child's Death

How many more children must die before judges will start treating men equally under the law?  (CNN) -- When 4-year-old Ethan Stacy was reluctantly sent off to spend the summer with his mother late last month, he was in effect being given a death sentence. The child never had a chance. He was dead within two weeks of arriving at the apartment in Layton, Utah, where his mother lived with her fiancé. Everyone acts as if the young boy's death is a mystery:What could have been done to save him?"I don't have a good answer for you," Layton police Lt. Garret Atkin, one of many law enforcement officers in Davis County, Utah, who are grieving for the boy who lived among them so briefly, told me.I have a good answer: Treat father's equally.  In family court, custody presumptively goes to the mother...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).