Friend's Dilema - a sad story.

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I have a friend - really, it is not me. His wife wanted to work and have a family and convinced him to become a stay at home dad. He did this giving up a professional career. They have two children. He stays home, takes care of the house, nurtures and cares for the two kids, and she goes to work every day. One day she decides to divorce him. She files in the divorce proceedings that he is a dead-beat dad - he has no job. She wants full custody of the kids. He has a shoddy lawyer who has no idea how to fight for him and the result is she walks away with both kids with no custody to him at all - and she gets child support from the guy who is too old to get back into his career. It just burns me about this all. The poor guy was a wonderful father. Never cheated on her. The court had no understanding that she was the bread winner and he was the home maker. It just stated that children are always better with the mother. Both kids now have emotional problems because they were taken away from their nurturing parent. Who would you side with - the dad or the mom?