Posted on 06/16/2010 8:59:20 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I thought we didn’t do debtors prison any more.
This is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. The US doesn't have debtor's prison, at least it shouldn't. The last 100 years, we've criminalized WAY too much activity, and taken our eyes off actual violent, predatory offenders like murderers, rapists and pedophiles. Get the drug users, child-support avoiders out of jail and make some room for the real threats to society.
They forgot to mention all the deadbeat mothers out there.
Jail for deadbeat moms that hold children’s visitation rights as a stick to beat up men? Didn’t think so...magritte
The point about debtor’s prison is a very good one. What about the guy that doesn’t have a job and can’t get one. That’s not an unusual situation in this recession. Unemployed single mothers are given custody and government assistance. Unemployed single fathers are given child support payments and jail time if they don’t make them.
I say send all of these people to go help clean the Gulf, and pay them minimum wage.
There are 100’s of reasons why I am so glad my (awesome) daughter is now a 22 y/o college graduate, but the one relevent to this article is that there is nothing more my X-wife can even attempt to hold over me anymore.
There are mothers who don’t pay support.
The “Family” Court racket is simply that. You have “Family” Law whores....err....attorneys whom have a sole interest in soaking clients without much concern for just outcomes. You also have “Judges” (some that have no children) that are in on the racket as collection of child support money for the counties and states is a big money-maker due to the Federal dollars that will flow their way as a result.
The “system” is completely broken and no one is really interested in fixing it.
Finally, it should be noted that courts are government entities, and we’re supposed to believe they are anymore competent than any other government entity? Puh-leeze.....
No doubt but I’d wager that the overwhelming % of dead-beat parents are fathers just as the overwhelming % of single parents are mothers.
paraphrasing a support hearing that my aunt had many years ago:
Aunt: He is 14 months in arrears!
Ex: I don’t have any money.
Judge: I can send him to jail.
Aunt: How is he ever going to pay me if he is sitting in jail?
The obvious solution is to do away with court ordered child support payments.
Period.
Would that allow even more men to skate away free from all parental responsibilities. Would that not force millions of single moms with little kids into welfare?
Nope. Not if you do it right.
We need to eliminate no fault divorceses. We need to pass tax laws that support intact families - not punish them. We can easily turn around our culture of broken homes, but there’s just one problem.
It’s not in the government’s best intersts.
Big Government only grows bigger as the welfare class grows.
However theres no law requiring a custodial parent usually in Tx a woman...to be gainfully employed. They can get on bennies sit on their fat ass and do nothing but watch the soaps. but they expect the cig and beer money
Middle class men meet their “bail out” amounts - usually within 24 hours... Child Support enforcement is a positive incentive to keep marriages together...
PING
I assume the ex did not pay for the college education.
For if she did - she could come back to you for repayment.
Is it surprising that many men don't want to honor this government imposed contract that they didn't write? Does our society really think being a father is just writing a check to a woman who once claimed to love him but now claims to hate him? How much evidence do we need that fatherless families create so many societal problems? The way our society is organizing itself is disturbing on so many levels.
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