This_person
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See, if the non-supporting parents were just "scoffing the law", then they'd probably see the concept of providing for their own offspring as okay, and they would provide, financially, in such a way as to be known, just not withing the confines of what they see as an "immoral, unjust, theiving" child support system. Certainly, no one with any morals would think that it was not their moral obligation to provide for their own child(ren) - financially - because they see the kid's needs as already being met! So, scoffing the law would mean doing the right thing, but outside the bounds of the law.JPC sr said:See at beginning and at the bottom of that story it says the story comes from the Associated Press (AP), so the heading calling parents as "deadbeats" is only coming from the WTOP news and not the AP report itself. On the first line they call the parents "scofflaw" and not deadbeat.
This is because the slander of "deadbeat" is pushed by that media and not by the police. The slander has been officially stopped but it goes on in public discourse because slander is hard to die.
The reason parents are called "scofflaw" is because the parents are only resisting the law - scoffing the law, and it is not scoffing the children.
Attacking the parenting of the parents when the parents are simply defying an unjust law is slander indeed.
And in Maryland it is officially "scofflaw parents" and not that slander anymore.
A deadbeat just doesn't pay his bills. Regardless of who gets hurt.
It's JPC! 
