Wrong. While it may have been true of the child welfare system in the West in the past that mother's automatically got the children, these things are changing. Mother's no longer automatically get the kids, neither do father's, decisions are more often based now on who's the fittest parent. You see that's the beauty of the Western system, it can change, unlike religious laws which don't take into consideration things like who's fittest. You also need to look more closely at those statistics, particularly where is the biological father in these statistics. My guess is that they're nowhere to be found.