You can’t change the child support laws without custody/divorce reform. The laws need to be changed to provide both parents with equal access to their children (unless otherwise proven unfit, move away or incarcerated). No fault divorce needs to be abolished & replace with programs that support the family structure. How could this NOT be in the best interest of the child? With 50/50 parenting plan, no child support needs to change hands as both parents support the children to the best of their ability & within their own income means. Yes, this just might require some thinking & planning by both parties. Imagine that? One might need to THINK that they just might have to someday support their children themselves? Better get an education/career training/employment before that happens right??? Child support would come into play if one parent is unavailable for parenting. The states know how much it costs to raise a child; they pay it out in foster care benefits monthly. This is how support will be primarily based, not necessarily on income.
Furthermore, partial lottery proceeds need to be funneled into birth control research especially for MEN and for reproductive education. I would like to see mandatory *family life planning* classes in each high school. Teach them reality BEFORE they make mistakes. Teach them to THINK before they act. INFORM them of choices & consequences for their actions. Each state will have clinics that provide, free of charge, vasectomy, tubal ligations & birth control. Yup, just walk in! These can be staffed by doctors who will benefit by way of partial student loan forgiveness. Heck, we send them out of the control for this stuff; I say we keep them home!
I could stop here but ahhh, shucks. Proven false abuse allegations, PAS (brainwashing of the children, let’s call a spade a spade here, it doesn’t need a fancy title) or anything else that presents a false front in order to gain custody will be met with mandatory jail time. I’m all for building a new prison to house them, preferably in the middle of Alaska & funded by historically high court fines for perjury. No Camp Cupcake for YOU! CLINK!
Things have to change folks; this antiquated system is no longer working. We are raising a generation of angry men & stupid women. Studies have show that children who do not have both parents in their lives have a 70% greater risk of drug use, suicide, drop out & teen pregnancy. Studies also show that children who live in a single female household run a greater risk of death then homes that contain firearms. Today, 60% of all children will spend sometime with a single female as head of household. Think this will just increase the welfare rolls? Think again.
“Daughters from female-headed households are much more likely than daughters from two-parent families to themselves become single parents and to rely on welfare for support as adults.....Living with a single mother at age 16 increases a daughter's risk of becoming a household head by 72 percent for whites and 100 percent for blacks. The public costs of this differential emerge in figures showing that a daughter living in a single parent household at any time during adolescence is far more likely (127 percent more likely among whites, 164 percent among blacks) to receive welfare benefits as an adult, compared to daughters from two-parent households."
The Garbage Generation, page 240
Something to think about it, something to act on. I do not feel sorry for those who sit around & whine about how they are being abused by the system if they fail to act on it. VOTE, write letters, protest. Tell your elected officials what you want & if they aren’t for it that you will see to it that they are voted out office. Education, education, education…this is the key. Our laws need to change to keep families together, children need BOTH influences DAILY, even if they can’t live under the same roof.
KAT
