DO YOU THINK THAT THE CHILD SUPPORT LAWS IN THE US ARE TOO HARSH?

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choices : ethics : DO YOU THINK THAT THE CHILD SUPPORT LAWS IN THE US ARE TOO HARSH?

[+] ballot by smallreds
created Tue Nov 09, 04
In many countries, child support is calculated based on BOTH parents' wages. In the US, men must work two and three jobs just to cover child support and when he is unemployed he must somehow give backpay and make up for all missed payments. He does not get a tax break for child support but the one receiving child support gets it tax free. The one receiving child support does not have to account for where the money went. And this is the most ridiculous one...in some states, if a man marries another woman, child support can be recalculated based on HER income! unfair and unjust,It seems as though the law takes it for granted that every father is a deadbeat and needs to be punished. What do you think?

Yes the laws are too harsh
NO, the men get what they deserve

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COMMENTS:
I be takin care of my kidz and shit.

by lowerclassbrats on Tue Nov 09, 04 4:23pm [+]

If you have unprotected sex, this is one of the consequences...

... so think hard before becoming hard! *Grin*

by Steelhamster on Tue Nov 09, 04 5:02pm [+]

Don't get me started......

by keithsheen on Tue Nov 09, 04 5:09pm [+]

They should be harsh. If they weren't , your child will become someone else's problem. Trust me, someone else may wind up bust'n a cap in juniors ass because you weren't there to show him how to be a responsible adult.
Heed steelhamster's advice

by elvislennon on Tue Nov 09, 04 5:51pm [+]

ok, but dont you think that the women should at least account and show where the money is going? Ive seen women collecting child support and wearing the best clothes etc. while their kids wore hand me downs and looked like pauper's kids. I also know quite a few who got pregnant on the sly just so that they could get child support

by smallreds on Tue Nov 09, 04 6:48pm [+]

You are making a different point there smallreds.

I would agree that the money that is paid for the upbringing of your child, should go to your child.

In my youth, I would often be asked if I would have sex with the lady of that moment, to have intercourse without a condom. I would always refuse, not just for birth control reasons, but in my teens and twenties, AIDS was on the rise, and it just made common sense.

I would still advise anyone to use a condom, being macho may kill you.

by Steelhamster on Tue Nov 09, 04 7:21pm [+]

Very true

by smallreds on Tue Nov 09, 04 7:36pm [+]

Amen, Steel.

by WalterPeck_EPA on Wed Nov 10, 04 2:18pm [+]

I am with a guy who was married and had a kid, he is now divorced and pays child support, it wasnt court ordered or anything and he gives as much as he can, but if ANY little disagreement happens between them, the baby momma threatens to stop letting him see his son and insists that the almost half of earnings that she gets from him would be nothing compared to what a court would order, meaning that he could stand to lose his house and other assets to the bank. Where i come from in Trinidad, things like a mortgage are taken out before child support is calculated. And im terribly afraid of getting married because I was told that both our incomes could be added and calculated to go toward child support. Why should I have to pay for other people's kids?(I wouldnd say "mistake" because he was born in wedlock)ALSO i was reading up that in some states a non biological parent could be called upon to pay child support if He/she were a major part of the child's life and took on a parental role, how fair is that? Also, if you are debarred from seeing your child for whatever reason, you still have to pay child support, its just that I was reading up a lot and I found so many things to be so unfair.

by smallreds on Fri Nov 12, 04 8:10pm [+]

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