Daddy Nobucks: When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill
Also… This constant harping on how much money the states “make” from child support. Child support payments are paid to the person CARING FOR THE CHILD – not to the state collecting it for them. The Federal government provides funds to states, based on performance, in the hopes that obtaining support payments for the children will keep their parents OFF WELFARE. Welfare benefits – cash, medical, food stamps, housing – are infinitely more expensive to society than working to get support payments for kids, so it’s a good investment. Also, morally it’s YOUR job to pay for YOUR kids. I work hard enough for my meager paycheck without having thousands more go on the dole because Mom or Dad feels it’s “unfair” to support their own children. States aren’t exactly filling the coffers with child support money, what little of it they can collect from deadbeat parents in the first place.
