Health, you may be frustrated, but you seem to try to attack me. How about keeping this nice?
Now as to custody – again, I don’t know your specific situation, so I’m going by small bits that you are telling me. I assumed your wife had primary custody based on what you posted. I don’t know how you came to the conclusion on where to educate your children. I don’t know your court case. But I still can’t imagine that any father would not want to help his children, especially if their mother was raising them in less ideal conditions. What is more likely to make/keep a kid frum? Seeing his mother upset because his father isn’t paying child support and life is hard? Or a mother who speaks favorably about her ex-husband still supporting his children? I know people in both situations and the former doesn’t work out well for the children. The latter does.
No, I don’t believe that only atheists have rights. I have no idea how the courts determined where to educate your kids. Usually, its a compromise between the parents.
As to my friend – her company knew that they had the ability to work with her because they have enough people on staff who rotate their hours. So it was just another request in the pot. It worked out even better when the specifics cleared because there was one person who always wanted off on Saturday instead of Sunday and now it was easy to accomodate both of them. Otherwise, she would have rotated with other people.
Another friend of mine got a job offer from a famous auction house. When she accepted, she mentioned Shabbos and they retracted their job offer. Her position was being shared with one other person who always left by 4 oclock. Since they needed her to stay, they couldn’t reasonably accomodate her. So they weren’t legally required to.