Good question, since there are women out there that pay child support; but in any case, I see it as pro-child. And I'm a father who has paid a lot of money in child support.
But I have to say, Thank God it's over. I even have a letter from the AG's office to validate that my account is paid in full.
...plus the article never singles out fathers specifically, but rather "parents" or "people"...
Marauder, you are a good father and a responsible person. As a result, your legacy will continue.
There is a common denomination between crime and male offenders and that commonality is ordinarily an absent father who doesn't participate in the lives of their children.
Of the thousands of criminal offenders with whom I've worked ONLY TWO had fathers who were involved with them. In the hundreds of consultations I have had with criminal offenders, the biggest impact and devastation they described in their lives was NO FATHER. And for the more sensitive or those with an exhausted mother or an emotionally nonresponsive mother, it leads to an attitude of low level of self esteem due to rejection and feeling not being loved...which leads to seeking it out elsewhere, identifying with like...which leads to nonsupervision of children, which leads to small levels of criminality and drug use which leads to escalation, which leads to lives of crime.
I can't stress enough the importance of an important male figure in the life of a young man (and in the life of a young woman, either) and the value of a mentor system to assist to those who don't have a positive role model in their lives.
THAT is the issue that should be stressed, not apologists for the offender.