No, in reality the parents are just poor and one can not truly be guilty of any crime just based on being poor - and thereby too poor to pay the Child Support demands.
And it cost over $20,000. per year for each prisoner in jail, and for that amount we could give each of the parents a full time 40 hour week job at the minimum wage and have money left over. And if we did that then the Child Support could be deducted from the new job and income taxes paid too and each time it would be one less person in jail.
Note: I do not propose giving the parents such jobs but the irony still stands in that equation.
Instead we have Child Support laws that pillage and plunder the separated parents until the parents are dead-broke and then the law put the parents into prison for 3 or 5 years accordingly and it is an ignorant way to run a gov. And only ONLY poor parents go to jail.
Sure a parent can do that after they plead "GUILTY" to not paying the Child Support, which means the parents are guilty first and then the parents must try to prove their true innocence AFTER pleading guilty.
It is unAmerican and maybe some day it will be declared as unConstitutional as other challenges,
link one HERE.
But that is just not real, and I know many people believe it is true that Child Support is to support the children but it is NOT.
Child Support is about
"enforcing their right to support from both of their parents" which only means "Parenting Police". It talks hypocritically about "children" but it is only about controlling the parents.
The children all have everything they need and if any child lacks anything needed then it is ONLY because of the neglect or abuse by the custodial and NOT because of Child Support being paid or not paid.
And the custodial does have plenty of easy options to get anything the child(ren) needs to overflowing without getting any Child Support at all.
And the truest proof of all is that the poorest of poor families on Welfare have their Child Support payments confiscated by the State gov and that c/s payment is put into the State treasury - why? because the poorest of children already have everything they need to overflowing.
No parent really choses to not support their own children as that is just slander and not true.
But it is right and proper for any parent to chose not to pay a thief even when the thief is a gov Child Support collection.
There is a better option now, in that voting JP as Governor and then say "bye-bye" to the thieving Child Support system.
There are always options and better choices when one investigates.