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A quick googling shows a large number of websites devoted to dad's rights, helping fathers get joint custody and/or visitation, defense against false accusations of abuse by vindictive exes, "throwaway dads", etc.

There are no such sites for women. That should tell you something.

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"Results 1 - 10 of about 22,000,000 for mother's rights. (0.23 seconds)." Hmm... it seems that you're wrong about that. And the number of websites listed in Google is a poor measure of something's worth. After all, there are 2,810,000 results for "obama citizenship" even though that issue has already been settled.

Also look up alien abduction, underpants gnomes, and other urban legends.

I don't claim that courts in the past favored mothers, but in the present, there is no gender bias under the law.

When searching around, the sites you find that exist for helping out dads are substantial. Real hardship, current stories, and dealing with the grief of having your kids taken away by a woman who has gotten tired of being married.

When divorce happens, that's when you see what people are really made of. Some women will take custody just to hurt dad.

Anyway, I hope you're right about the lessening of gender bias. I'd love to see data. No idea where I'd find such data though.

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