Gender Bias

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Gender Bias of
Tender Years’ Doctrine


Ever since 1970 the largest issue that kept on developing was focused on

the fact that courts are very gender bias when it involves; tender years’ doctrine.

This approach held that mothers were generally entitled to custody of the child

during his or her tender years, which was the child’s period of nurture (from

birth to the age of seven), after tender years the father became entitled to the

custody of his child. Though the issues still a rise that mother’s can take better

care of a child during his or her tender years’ doctrine, whereas many father

social groups believe that there is no difference in fathers taking care of children

or mothers. As researchers provide evidence that when a child lives with their

mother through their tender years begin to go through a period where they begin

to hate their fathers because of the lack of time fathers spend time with their

child to. Ever since this belief was established, courts have proved how they are

gender bias when it comes to tender years doctrine.

There have been many magazines published, such as: Divorce Magazine,

which provides information on divorce statistics and opinions of other parents

which relate to the idea of divorce. Divorce Magazine has listed percentages of

divorces and many other issues involving tender years doctrine, it has been said

that twenty percentage of non-custodial parents miss daily contact with their

own children who live with their mothers because of tender years doctrine. It has

also listed the fact that forty-five percent of mother’s are the one who initiate

divorce. Tender years doctrine, should only be useful to mother’s who have

enough income to provide the children with his of her needs until the father

doesn’t get custody. Some websites such as: www.dadsdivorce.com also express

their opinions freely, w...