Ponytail
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Forcing a parent to be responsible is no different than disiplining a child for leaving a skateboard at the top of the stairs.
Deadbeat Dads are in jail as a last resort punishment. Dads that simply can't afford and PROVE that they can't afford child support, are not put in jail. Dads that ##### that they can't afford that new Cadillac because of child support payments are put in jail.
I lived it. I was the one going to school with my feet hangin' out the ends of my shoes, while my dad was sporting a new Buick, putting in a new pool, having an addition put on his house. Mean while, the house that I was living in was falling down around us, the car was a POS that rarely got us where we needed to be without some issue. And yet Dad still thought he was paying too much in child support and yet #####ed when my brother and I would go to his house "lookin' like homeless kids".
I'm not alone. I work with Dads now, and have for years, that do various things to hide their true income from the other half to avoid paying higher child support payments thinking that for some reason, because the marriage didn't work out and they no longer live at home, that they no longer need to make sacrifices for the kids. After all, the kids would REALLY like that new Harley wouldn't they?
You are a piece of work JPC. And I truly hope that I never meet you anyplace face to face. I would surely wind up in jail. And that is something that I have been easily able to avoid for my entire life.
Deadbeat Dads are in jail as a last resort punishment. Dads that simply can't afford and PROVE that they can't afford child support, are not put in jail. Dads that ##### that they can't afford that new Cadillac because of child support payments are put in jail.
I lived it. I was the one going to school with my feet hangin' out the ends of my shoes, while my dad was sporting a new Buick, putting in a new pool, having an addition put on his house. Mean while, the house that I was living in was falling down around us, the car was a POS that rarely got us where we needed to be without some issue. And yet Dad still thought he was paying too much in child support and yet #####ed when my brother and I would go to his house "lookin' like homeless kids".
I'm not alone. I work with Dads now, and have for years, that do various things to hide their true income from the other half to avoid paying higher child support payments thinking that for some reason, because the marriage didn't work out and they no longer live at home, that they no longer need to make sacrifices for the kids. After all, the kids would REALLY like that new Harley wouldn't they?
You are a piece of work JPC. And I truly hope that I never meet you anyplace face to face. I would surely wind up in jail. And that is something that I have been easily able to avoid for my entire life.