Was looking up advice about selling a family home in divorce and when the Supernanny site came up, thought that perhaps it would have good advice on supporting children through it.
Instead I was surprised to see - among some more objective advice - this... "There is no longer a “guilty party” in a divorce. The fact that the wife may have slept with half her husband's friends and used his credit card to fund her adulterous hotel bills may make her a bad wife but not, in the courts' view, a bad mother... Frequently, therefore, the father will find himself banished to a poky studio flat, while his wife – and possibly even her lover – lives with his children in the house he paid for. And he will have to cough up maintenance for the children until they reach 17 (or 19 if in full-time education). Only at that far-off stage – providing this was written into the divorce settlement – will the matrimonial property be sold and the proceeds divided between him and his former wife.". It also talks about how women often 'relied on their man' to save.
Needless to say, this does not reflect the reality of the vast majority of single mothers I know, who usually were left by men (or treated in a way that left them no real option but separation), often struggle to get even the pitiful amounts that CMS insists on for lower income and self employed fathers, and usually have to sell the family home asap and rent.
www.supernanny.co.uk/Advice/-/Family-Matters/-/Relationships/Who-Gets-the-House.aspx
Aibu to think this is Men's Rights Activist type BS and inappropriate for a website and topic that people would be turning to at an already traumatic time?