Despite the motion a parental drift by the noncustodial father, which can become even more pronounced when he remarries and has a second family.

It is easy to see why fathers, who so often are noncustodial parents, come to believe they are victims of divorce in regard to custody and support of children.

Judges do not set out to deny fathers their rights in child custody cases, but noncustodial fathers very often come to believe they are unfairly treated.

The preference for awarding custodial parent, who is usually the mother.

Even when the noncustodial father makes good his child support payments, the financial strain on the custodial mother is often very great, and the sing-parent families headed by a mother are often a pocket of poverty within American society.

Nothing more clearly demonstrates the sadness and sorrow of divorce than battles over child custody, legal and physical.

See also Attachment Theory; Removal (of a Minor Child).