Additionally, shared custody is great. But to be totally fair, it needs to be accompanied by shared responsibility (especially financial responsibility) by parents who bring children into the world, as no person has yet managed to create a child all by themselves If fathers continue to be able to avoid full financial responsibility for the children they create, then the inequity of placing much of the financial burden on mothers will continue. This hardship is experienced by mothers acutely in many cases where parents are not married.

I would also suggest that when fathers are required to take full responsibility (from conception) and have shared custody, then we’ll finally see a move towards greater sexual responsibility, and a focus on the creation of effective birth control methods for men to initiate, which will end much of the unwitting gender bias against mothers that still exists when it comes to parenthood.