(Dominican culture when a couple split up usually the man takes the boys and the woman the girls).
Matilda, I respectfully disagree. I have seen most women stuck with the children, and left to fend for themselves by deadbeat daddies, and in some cases, real men who stand up and take the children if the mother is not deserving (abuse, drugs, promiscuous, etc.). But I wouldn't say it's due to Dominican culture that the family gets split along gender lines in the case of a breakup. This I have never seen.
Lol well let's respectfully disagree then but in my experience that is the norm. My husbands mother had another man and at age 4 his dad took him and his 6 year old brother to the mountains which is where he lived till aged 18. The girls were left with the mother. He took his 2 boys (there were no girls) when his relationship with their mother ended. My foster son has his father close by, but being brought up by father's parents = mother left for the capital. The child I now have was being brought up by father when mother left. There are hundreds more examples and not all fathers are deadbeat. I promise you, often in the culture boys go with the father and girls with the mother.
Matilda