by Caryn Murray

Created on: March 03, 2009

Forcing men to pay child support does NOT benefit the child... it benefits the political view that family law is PROfamily... this view exists to disguise the more obvious agenda. The government has found a way to take something as sacred and wonderful as raising a child, and turn it into another profitable industry.

According to Title IV-D, state child support collection agencies recieve a huge financial bonus for the child support arrears they collect. Therefore, it is child support arrears that are a good thing. By focusing on the few mothers who have conceived a child with a REAL deadbeat (meaning a man who willingly avoids all responsibility of his child) they are able to "sell the idea" that any man who does not pay child support is now (gasp) a deadbeat. And thus, it is socially and politically acceptable to impose an authoritarian strategy over noncustodial parents. Pay, or else.

A child becomes a burden when you are missing 20% of your paycheck every week. Child support is not based on the needs of a child, it is based on income. One child is worth only $20 a month while another is worth $2000 a month? How can somebody who earns less than $20k a year have debt that is greater than $2000 a year for his child? The answer is obvious, and yet so many fail to acknowledge it. When you ask your ex to "support" your child by taking him to court and placing a child support order on him, you have just used your child as bait... not only for your own profit but also for the profit of the goverment.

If a man gives a woman money for diapers, food, or to help with rent or another bill when she needs help supporting a child, this is legally considered a "gift." If a judge orders a man to pay 50% of child related expenses, such as day care, this is considered an "add on" and is additional to that standard 20% of your income.

In summary, forcing a man to pay child support is beneficial to the government because it brings in more money. By enforcing an amount that nobody can afford to keep up with, a man will be placed in arrears and here is where the profit lies for the government. There is a social lie about "deadbeat dads" that has been bought into for far too long. Does it really seem realistic to you that nationwide, there are millions of fathers who don't eant to help raise their child? Does it really seem possible that enforcing a financial burden is actually pro family, and not just self serving?

Why else would politicians brag about collecting billions of dollars in child support arrears by intercepting UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS?

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