Shared Custody, Does It Push Mothers Too Far?

Abstract

In recent years women’s desire in relation to maternity shows two tendencies: women who choose to be mothers at the side of a man who takes on paternity in a responsible way and women who wish to be mothers but not next to a man. Some years ago men were not (or in the main were not) in the relationship of care of their daughters and sons of a young age. Today they are more so. But, how and where are they? What is the place of the father? For babies to be born the relationship between the sexes is necessary and this is an uneven, unbalanced relationship. It is a natural disparity, that is, of something that, by chance or as a gift, is thus and not another way. And it is important not to confuse disparity with inequality, since inequalities have to do with the social and are, therefore, modifiable and remediable. To confuse that disparity with inequality can lead to the attempt to make it invisible, deny it, usurp it and/or overcome it through the law