www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/19/i-believed-the-family-court-system-was-bias-against-fathers-then-i-found-the-rot-at-the-core-of-it?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR11gdRdMfMh3DGOarHgmHQS9RjHwB8X07NaqZezjDYWmnTv1ocFww9Ju80#Echobox=1568968247
Came across this in the Guardian - do we think things are any better in UK? (Sorry for long link not sure what's up with it but it seems to work):
"A couple of years ago a barrister, now a magistrate, told me she stayed in her controlling and abusive marriage for 10 years after she first wanted to leave. If her husband applied for custody, she knew it was highly likely he would be granted unsupervised access. “I stayed in that marriage to supervise him with my son.”
This certainly resonated with me 
.