: About Me

I am a 48 year old woman with an MBA in Business. My life has been spent in raising children, spiritual pursuits, recovery, gay, lesbian transgender and bisexual rights activism, and I work with a housing authority in the development department.

I enjoy reading all sorts of things. I enjoy learning about politics and religions and spiritual traditions. Human rights, however that expresses itself, is what I believe in "fighting" for using nonviolent methods. Soulforce and the Human Rights Campaign are two organizations I support and am a member of.

My sister is has cancer which began in the ducts and has spread to all parts of her body and I support finding cures and educating women on this issue. My family has also been a victim of Huntington's Disease, though my immediate family seems to have escaped it. Cousins, Aunts and one Uncle have it or have died with it.

My passion is ...

human rights

I know too much about ...

abuse

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a social worker

Why I write ...

because I love to express myself and learn to do it better and better

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Gentle Yoga -reading, listen to christian music or classic rock

My first job ...

laundry in an nursing home

My inspiration ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Relationships & Family > Children & Divorce The catch 22 of child support

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I have received child support for my children and I have paid child support. I have been, as a single divorced mother, on both sides of the coin. I also have experienced different perspectives within my family since my children had different father's, both of whom had diametrically opposite economic situations. I have gone from welfare to work myself during the years that I was raising my four children. The reality of child support is that the Federal mandate for one child was 17% of your gross income, 25% for two children and 27% for three. During the years that my twins' dad paid support...

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