The American Spectator

Aaron Johnston br> Frisco, TX /p> p> JELLY MOMS br> Re: Dariel A. Colella’s Losing at Singles and her reply to Michael E. Young’s letter (“Winning at Doubles”) in Reader Mail’s Back to School With Ben : /p>

It’s ironic that Dariel A. Colella would make the remark that many men who “cannot get past their anger and fail to realize that helping the mother also helps their children.”

Indeed! Consider how the court system does its best to make those fathers angry and even take away their employment and then complains when fathers no longer work 80 hour weeks to support their offspring. I’m reminded of the joke “the beatings will continue until morale improves.” When the courts stop allowing children to be exploited as financial pawns, then maybe they won’t be caught in the middle anymore.

Quite simply: Giving the child to the parent best financially able to take care of it is in the best interests of the child. Period. Sure, maybe the father won’t be able to make peanut butter sandwiches as well as mom, but then again, many career women no longer do these things anyway and the DMV won’t need to have us all give fingerprints to track and make the disgruntled parent pay up.

p>Just a suggestion.