If Texas is making any efforts or great strides forward in gender equality it damned sure must really be shitty elsewhere !!

I could relate some tales involving the child support issues relevant to Texas that would curl your hair and generate intense ire from a lot of the male population, but .... this is no place to write/post a novel, so .....

I just last summer finally got custody of my (then 17yo) daughter. The only way that EVER came to pass was my Ex decided not to fight the action. Had she decided to fight it (with full free legal counsel of course) I would have dropped it, knowing full well I didn't have $20,000 to devote to the cause which is the average cost I found after consulting with several lawyers.

My daughter finally told me late last spring on one of her weekends here that she was tired of the abusive behavior of her mom and step dad and wanted to live with me, much to my joy I might add !

She also told me that her mom had told her 5 yrs prior when she had related to her mom that she wanted to come live with me that her mom had told her at the time if she did so she'd have me slammed in jail and would come to my place with a video camera and dance in my yard while they hauled me away in handcuffs. Can I pick 'em or what ?

This threat by my Ex was enough to keep my daughter from moving out as she didn want to cause me any problems. Of course her mom had no way of doing what she promised but my daughter didn know that at the time. When she related this to me last spring I told her it was all a bluff and if she wanted to live with me, at 17, that was certainly her decision and her mom couldn't do anything to me for her making that choice.

Anyone thinking women don't posess the visciousness or meaness to be military combatants must never have been married and divorced, otherwise they'd likely hold a totally different view