Of course a man should only support a child that is his by birth ot legal adoption. However to eliminate all child support may sound good to you but what about the mothers who do care for their children using support. You sound as if you have had a bad deal but not all single mom’s are whores or waste support money. Maybe an accounting of how money is spent is a good idea. I have family who struggles to make ends meet while the ex drives a new car, has plenty of extras and won’t buy his kids a pair of shoes
“Of course a man should only support a child that is his by birth ot legal adoption. “
But in application, that isn’t how it works.
” Maybe an accounting of how money is spent is a good idea.”
It sure is, but it likely will never happen.
Not me but I personally knew two couples where the wives took the kids far away, one many hundreds of miles away, the other to another country, then filed for custody in a US family court and got it and awarded child support.
As long as the woman kidnaps the kids before she goes to family court she gets awarded full custody and child support and the father is completely screwed, no children and no paycheck, and she has won the gravy train(In one of the cases the victim volunteered to get laid off from his job once he woke up to how badly he got screwed).
RE :”Maybe an accounting of how money is spent is a good idea. “
It should be required much like SS survivors benefits to kids. Also another fellow I once worked with told me he was required to pay child support till the kids were 21, not 18.