I wouldn't necessarily blame the laws for the actions of men who CLEARLY aren't fit to live in society in the first place. If you can't handle the responsibilities of everyday life to the point where you hurt someone, then the only person to blame is YOU. The problem is completely internal, and to blame it on external factors like child support or the judicial system is ridiculous. People like that are typically screwed up from childhood and grow up as sociopaths and psychopaths. Changing the child support laws is not going to keep people from being insane axe murderers, and I seriously doubt that the current laws encourage it anyway.
As for it taking a welfare mom to create a deadbeat dad... I would argue that it's the other way around. After all, if Dad held up his half of the bargain then maybe Mom wouldn't need welfare, dontcha think?
It's just the mindset that some people have... they see "their" money disappearing and going towards child support and then suddenly Mom or Dad or whoever the custodial parent is has a fancy new leather jacket! Well, that jacket must have been expensive, I wonder where they got the money for that! Surely they spent the child support check on themselves and not on the child, right? But these same people who are so concerned that the parent with custody spend every penny on the child aren't going to contribute a single DIME to that child? It just doesn't make any sense...
As for it taking a welfare mom to create a deadbeat dad... I would argue that it's the other way around. After all, if Dad held up his half of the bargain then maybe Mom wouldn't need welfare, dontcha think?
It's just the mindset that some people have... they see "their" money disappearing and going towards child support and then suddenly Mom or Dad or whoever the custodial parent is has a fancy new leather jacket! Well, that jacket must have been expensive, I wonder where they got the money for that! Surely they spent the child support check on themselves and not on the child, right? But these same people who are so concerned that the parent with custody spend every penny on the child aren't going to contribute a single DIME to that child? It just doesn't make any sense...
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