Following are a further selection of readers' responses to the Zeit Gist articles on child custody and parental child abduction by Colin P. A. Jones (Oct. 20, Nov. 17, Nov. 24) and "Richard Cory" (Nov. 3):
Your article "Fatally flawed math: betting a family on Japan" (Nov. 3) inspired in me scornful pity. This father is pathetic, and the ridiculous illustration at least correctly depicts him as a clown. Should I also add weak and masochistic?
Whether a marriage goes well or bad, it is the result of both spouses. While it is fully right to discuss the necessity to sign the Hague Convention, covering child abduction only from one side — the foreign husband's — gives a distorted debate.