Poll: custody laws are biased against men

Not many men in the Faroes believe that child custody laws treat men and women equally.

This is according to a new poll of 650 men aged 18-52, conducted in February and March last year.

The poll, which consisted of 136 questions, found that only 3 percent of men in the capital region believe that custody laws treat men and women equally.

This figure rose to 5 percent for men residing outside the capital region.

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The poll forms part of a larger study, titled “Pápar og familjulív í Føroyum” (“Fathers and family life in the Faroes”). The report is available here (in Faroese only).

Another finding from the poll was that 46 percent of respondents believed the number of single dads will increase in the coming years.

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About 47 percent said they expected that more fathers will be living away from their children in the future. Some 24 percent said they believed this would not change in the future, while only 6 percent said that fewer dads will be living away from their children.

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Firouz Gaini, professor of anthropology at the University of the Faroe Islands, headed the study. Photo: Bjarni Árting Rubeksen

One-third of respondents expected that men would have fewer children in the future. Only 7 percent said they expected men to have more children in the future.

About 62 percent said they expected there will be more LGBTQ+ dads in the future. Only 2 percent said there will be fewer LGBTQ+ dads.

Read the Faroese versions of this article here and here.

English version by prosa.fo.

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