Child support is not alimony. Child support is one of the ways people deal with the consequences of their choices. You shouldn’t get out of your responsibilities to your children just because you didn’t marry their mother.
“You shouldn’t get out of your responsibilities to your children just because you didn’t marry their mother.”
Well, child support allows just that. It allows men to walk away from most of their responsibilities as long as they pay their government mandated fines. The only way to actually ensure the men live up to all their responsibilities is to encourage people to get married before having kids, and hopefully to stay married.
That element is missing from all our legal strategies to deal with these issues, so until we address that, we are just treating symptoms instead of the disease.