Unite For Child Support (MEGA BARF ALERT!!)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 27 January 2006 | Editorial

[buccaneer81]

The problem with this bill is that it gives someone economic credit for being a daddy, and that's stupid. You don't need to pay somebody for being a father. "

Oh, but its ok to pay somebody for being a mother? Well that's how it works today. The usual double standard woman's a victim manhaters in all their glory.

[buccaneer81]

PING!!

[buccaneer81]

PING!!

[MNJohnnie]

Gee how about this. Make Child Support tax deductable. Since in many cases the Father pays all the bills but the Mother gets all the tax credits since she is the custodial parent.

[SauronOfMordor]

Better yet, at the divorce hearing, let the wife set the child support figure to whatever she wants. But then the husband gets to choose whether to pay the support, or have custody of the kids

[Dashing Dasher]

I wish I saved the names of the "It's only my sperm, not my responsibility" crowd. I would ping them to this article.

Bless the women and children in Georgia. I hope they make it through this fight for their lives.

[TheCrusader]

I will relate a true story sent to me yesterday by a Father's Group. If I remember correctly this took place recently in Michigan.

A husband and wife had a baby, but the man found out his wife was cheating on him with a guy named Jim. It turned out that Jim was the real father. After learning of his wife's adulterous affair, the man divorced her, and the ex-wife moved in with Jim, and then they got married. Naturally, the ex-husband was ordered to pay her child support for the child of the man she was now shacking up with.

But it gets more interesting. The guy's ex-wife leaves Jim and sticks him with the baby, (remember, he's the real biological father). Now the clincher. The ex-husband is ordered to pay Jim the child support now. So now we have a man who's not even related to the child paying child support to the child's father. What do you think of women's rights now?

This story was sent to me by "Fathers and Families"

[colorcountry]

The way I see it, ANYONE male of female who doesn't support their children should be sent to jail. Why can't we figure out what support is....it isn't always just financial. Sometimes those children with the most financially, are the ones with least "support."

[383rr]

I know two men who have custody of their children. The mothers have not paid one thin dime, and not once have they paid a penalty. Another guy I know lost his job, got 2 months behind and spent 30 days in the klink, which of course, made him another month behind on support. Oh, what a fair system we have.

[buccaneer81]

Bless the women and children in Georgia. I hope they make it through this fight for their lives.

But to hell with many decent men, some of whom are barely allowed to see their kids and who live in poverty thanks to people of your mindset.

[Minutemen]

Bump for later

[Dashing Dasher]

I agree!

[Dashing Dasher]

Your words, not mine.

[phantomworker]

But to hell with many decent men, some of whom are barely allowed to see their kids and who live in poverty thanks to people of your mindset.

I just do not buy the fact that any decent man is not allowed to see his children. It just doesn't fly. The courts want equal visitation by both parents unless there are extenuating circumstances. I think, Bucky, that you might be letting some important detail out of this equation if you are not allowed ample visitation rights.

[phantomworker]

I will relate a true story sent to me yesterday by a Father's Group. If I remember correctly this took place recently in Michigan.

I don't think you remember any of the details correctly in this story. I don't buy it.

[phantomworker]

This is all second hand experience and hear say. I would like to hear a first hand account of this and the details behind it. Often when we relay a story like this, we do not have the entire story.

[buccaneer81]

I just do not buy the fact that any decent man is not allowed to see his children. It just doesn't fly. The courts want equal visitation by both parents unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Franklin County Ohio Domestic Court Rule #27. Non-custodial parent has visitation every other weekend and from 5:00 to 8:00 PM on Wednesday.

That's it. That's me. The courts don't give a damn about equality for parents.

[phantomworker]

I agree. It is the emotional support that is sometimes lacking. And the mother has to play both mother and father to the child. I am certainly not bashing dads. I think many fathers do offer emotional support and should be offered the respect they deserve.

[phantomworker]

I don't mean to get into personal details, but what was the reason for so little visitation? There had to be something?

[LWalk18]

The problem is that while the court can force a parent to pay support, they can't force them to see their children. A parent under the proposed system can obtain 50/50 custody, not having to pay support, and then disappear from their children's lives.