Don’t marry a partner from a lower-class family if you want to avoid a custody dispute (unless you’re also lower class!)

by philg

At the International Conference on Shared Parenting 2017, researchers noted that at least some of what drove custody litigation was differences in what people believed was the norm: “What do sisters, brothers, and friends say?” Marriages that mixed partners from different social classes tended to result in the most intense litigation: “People from lower social class families are more accustomed to single moms. So if you have a mom who was herself raised by a white trash single mom and a dad who grew up middle class raised by two parents, they’re never going to agree on whether shared parenting is good for the kids.”

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2 thoughts on “Don’t marry a partner from a lower-class family if you want to avoid a custody dispute (unless you’re also lower class!)”

  1. I’ve followed the rule of not marrying girls with divorced parents, but more for the reason that they appear far more prone to divorce in the first place. Since divorce would have been such a disaster for myself and, after a while, my children, it would have been dumb to increase the risk.

    Aha, with sI see this is supported by conventional wisdom. E.g., https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/heart-the-matter/201408/are-children-divorce-doomed-fail

    HuffPo, characteristically: “One of the most troubling research findings is that children of divorce are more likely to divorce themselves. This seems unfair.” But they don’t deny it.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-hughes/are-children-of-divorce-d_b_799355.html

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