Jessica Tata v. Jeffrey Singer

One sounds like a jerk who shouldn't have left and whose lack of responsibility will probably put him in jail for a good chunk of his remaining life. The other sounds like a friggin' abuse ring half a serial killer nonsense. But the woman will always get more play. Women neglecting/killing kids is a sexier story. I don't think, as a society, we suspect a father can care for a child properly in the first place, hence the woman winning in courst the vast majority of the time in all custody cases.

It's really simple actually. One is a local story. The other is a international story. One is about someone who either directly, or indirectly, killed his own son, a son that was messed up anyone. The other is about someone who killed 4 children of other people, in a daycare, and harmed a few more. There are some unfortunate truths that we must face about the differences. First, people care less about messed up kids, than healthy perfectly able kids. No one wants to admit this, but this is the truth. Second, people care less about people murdering their own children, than people killing other peoples children. Take abortion for example. No one weeps for those babies do they? Third, and this is just how things are. Local news stories do not get nearly the interest or coverage that major international ones do. Why? Because murders happen all the time. In 2010, we had 105 murders in Columbus Ohio, where I live. That's one every 3 days. Not exactly 'uncommon'. We're used to it. It's normal. If you tell someone "hey I heard there was a murder the other day", the guy next to you would say "so what's new?". But I woman that burned down a daycare, and fled to Nigeria to escape justice after killing 4 kids, and harming 3 more? That's news! That doesn't happen every day.