Joint custody is actually a quite complicated subject, because there are so many different opinions about who children should belong to after a divorce. From my mother's first marriage, when my sister was a baby, my parents divorced. Because of somethings really tough, my mother has our custody nowadays. But my mother's was a different case. It is usually the mother who was custody of the children, even when she has no conditions to raise them, the influence in a positive way her kids. I think that Justice, no matter the nation we are living in, fails in about 90% of all the cases. It's even a kind of prejudice against the father, who is sometimes more racional about looking after a child. Justice assures in the majority of cases that a mother has more capacity, but I think a kid needs support from both of his/her parents - otherwise, there shall be something missing in his/her life.
My own case the following one: I didn't have any sort of problems without my first father (even because my uncle and my mother's second husband can help me a lot), neither did my sister, Hadassa.
Well, I really can't extend my argument, but I think Justice should put itself on the father's shoes in order to decide well. It's an absurd the lack of observation from the Court about the male part, who feels the necessity of having his children beside him.