Family and children

Russia’s Family Code declares parental equality, yet a divorce dispute is built around selecting one residence for the child. There is no automatic model of equal residence with both parents. One parent gets daily life with the child. The other gets a contact schedule and a financial duty.

Custody

Without equal physical care as the default, a father enters court as a petitioner. He must prove his right to what was his daily life before divorce.

Parenting after divorce

Children must be supported. A transfer must not replace parenting, and the duty to pay must not justify restricting contact.

Reproductive decision

After conception, a man can neither insist on birth nor reject the future financial duty. The woman owns the decision while both are bound by its consequences.

Property

Division of marital property was designed to protect an economically dependent wife. Today it can award property regardless of who created it and at what cost.

Parental alienation

When one parent blocks the other, time works against the excluded parent. A later judgment cannot restore the lost years.

Cost of collapse

For a man, divorce can mean losing home, children, property, status, and social network at once. Society reduces that loss to a financial dispute.

Preserve both parents

Make full participation by both safe parents the default. Demand specific reasons for any restriction. Enforce contact orders as consistently as support orders.

A child needs a father in daily life, not a payer outside it.