Twice as good for a quarter as much: Are fathers held to a higher standard in family court?

By Hodine Williams ( February 6, 2026, 9:12 AM EST) -- My friend Jason asked me — casually, the way people do when they are pretending they are not carrying a question around like a stone in their pocket — “Hodine, why don’t you write an article about women having more rights in family court?” He didn’t ask it like an accusation. He didn’t frame it as an argument. He asked it the way people ask things they’ve heard too many times to ignore. And that’s the thing: it wasn’t the first time I’d heard the sentiment....