Divorce: A Judge Talks

June, 1985

I wrote an article several years ago about the hazards of being male in divorce court (Who Gets Screwed in a Divorce? I Do!, Playboy, December 1978)."If you are an American male, and if you get married," I began, "the chances are approximately one out of two that you will eventually get divorced." I went on to outline the typical male's experience in divorce at that time: If he sued for custody of his children, 96 percent of the time he would lose; he could count on paying hi...