Daddy Nobucks: When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill
Within some of the last half dozen or so comments lives an ignorance of the facts.
1. “Deadbeat dads” are a myth and the statistics and documentation thereof are ironclad. Virtually all non-payers are well below poverty level. Many are in jail…collecting not a dime of income. The percentage of dads who do not pay when they can is in the low single percentages. Why? You go to jail if you do not, and believe it or not, dads love their kids. “Child support” is an American institution, as wrong-headed and utterly fiscally asinine as it is. It gets paid.
2. Child support IS welfare, tens of billions of wasteful dollars of it folks, and it REALLY costs like it, underperforms like it, and fails like it. Title IV-D comes from the Einsteins that gave us the $700,000,000,000 Department of Health and Human Services, Welfare, Social Security, TANF, and VAWA. It’s also remolding society and not in a good way.
3. Please stop failing to therefore make the enormous distinction between private responsibilities and federally enforced programs. “Child support” is radically fiscally different from one to the other.
4. Child support, once paid, is untaxed and unaccountable. It has nothing in it whatsoever that ensures it supports children. Evidence is thick on the ground about support going to anything everything BUT the children. Come on, crack mothers care for their kids? Those kids are paychecks, folks. Why would it be any different for child support than we KNOW it is for much of welfare?
