Child Support Restructuring
by Child support should be to aid the children and not be a tool to discriminate against one parent.
There are more problems with the child support system in America than there is dust in the wind. How did this system get so messed up? Is it because of greed or is it because everyone was afraid to do the right thing all those years ago when the system was started. It seems that the fix is at hand if the politicians would look and listen to that which is front of them.
I am not in any way advocating that anyone is above supporting their children. Doing what is right for the child should never be a question. Doing what is right for the child by discriminating against a group of individuals is not the correct response to the problem. Though be it the response that has been advocated for so long. It is time to rethink the issue and revamp the policies.
It appears that the father of the child is on the losing end of the stick, so to speak. More often than not the mother is awarded custody of the child regardless of her ability to support the child. I am not saying that a mother does not need to be considered for custody; but, it appears that there should be more to consider.
If a mother requires an enormous amount of support to raise her children and if the father has the ability to pay said amount then why is the father not awarded custody? Most states require a percentage of the non-custodial parent’s income for child support based on the number of children. As I said it is good to support your children and really no one should have to enforce this. The thing is if the father is unknown the state normally will not provide as much money to the mother as would be awarded in child support from the father. The state’s normally think the mother should seek employment and provide for her children.
If this is the feeling of the state and the taxpayer then why should the same not hold true for non-custodial child support? It is possible for a woman to get a divorce and to earn as much from child support as she would earn on a job. When this happens where is the incentive for her to further her education or seek gainful employment? It is done away with. She has no reason to do anything than to laugh all the way to the bank. It doesn’t end there. If she remarries she still gets to receive the child support from her ex-husband. But what if the ex-husband remarries?
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Post CommentKriss
On October 2, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I fully agree with you 100 percent. It may seem odd, but I am a custodial parent of 3 children 2 over the age of 19 now; I have not been successful in receiving child support for the last 6-7 years due to non custodial parent lack of willingness to help provide for his children. I am seeing both sides of this issue as I date a single father of 4 young children. He is raked through the mudd when it comes to having any control over fatherhood and child support for his kids. they have 60/40 legal rights to the childrens wellbeing, but she holds all the cards. he struggles with finances due to the fact that he has his kids 40 percent of the time. they are at his house every weekend and every weekday during the summer. so he has to pay for day care during the 3 months of summer in order to have them along with still paying child support to the mother. Most weekends during the summer he has them as well because the mother usually decides that she has things she has to do or take care of so seh will not pick them up until maybe Sunday or not at all.