In more than 15 years of expérience in cross border divorces I have seen that the current complaints by fathers are often linked to the tentative by judges to redress open or hidden biases penalizing mothers. The route to equality is still very long, in both ways. Every case is different and the reason why a marriage ended with a divorce do matter in assessing the child’s best interest. Statistics on violence against women are far too high for invoking in the present moment the neutralization of maternal preference. Hopefully the moment will come for the next generation