This is a topic that continues to come up. Child support is one of those laws that, on the surface appears to be a good morally based law. It appears to be something that will help support or prevent children from being neglected. This is not the truth. Child support laws do more harm to the child and the parent that is honestly attempting to support his child than it does to help. I was going to do a show about child support years ago and never got around to it however after getting so many calls from so many friends of mine, who are suffering from the unfair child support orders they are under, I had to schedule a show.
I am not suggesting nor am I petitioning for men or women, who hold this orders, to avoid their responsibilities however what‘s fair is fair and this just isn’t. I recently talked to a family member today who was asking about how he could modify his order. He has gotten married recently and has a child by another woman and because his child support is so high he is unable to support both children adequately. I told him that the order can be modified and it would be in his best interest to have it done. I also told him that this is the only way that he would be able to finically support both children.
I went on to tell him a story of a woman who knew that the judge had over charged her ex-spouse for child support however she said nothing because she knew that she would benefit from the mistake. In fact, she actually went to court and attempted to have her ex pay back support for one month of delinquency. Tell me where does that child benefit in this scenario? The child doesn’t because now the father, who currently lives in another state, is financially unable to visit the child as often as he would if he wasn’t being overcharged in this order.
What orders like this create is a fatherless child, in most cases, which leads to higher crime rates and overcrowded jails and prisons. It is orders like this that continue to make minorities a permanent underclass while it turns the custodial parent into pimps. I child’s wellbeing is more than just money. The government understands that a lot of these parents come from poor communities and from a cycle of single parentlessness and if they dingle the chance of them getting money in their hands they will jump at the chance.
This blog is not for the male of female that is not paying support and have no desire to pay, rather if is for those that are trying to do the right things and have every intention of being a part of their children’s lives. The law continues to punish them and the child support recipients are active in this abuse. This is why “The Exalted Nation of Truth,” has decided to ask for child support reform. Yes, it is time for all of those parents that have been and continue to be abused by this law stand up and be heard. It is time to look at these single parents, who fail at raising their children, because they chose money over a decent future for their children, and say to them “It is your fault, that your child has no respect for their absent parent. It is time for us all to write our lawmakers seeking a change in the law, before another helpless child is abused.
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