Parents SHOULD be responsible for their kids.
If the father doesn't work, perhaps he can stay home and take care of the kids while the mother works.
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Our state only takes on collecting child support for (non-welfare) children when the non-custodial parent is at least a month behind already on court ordered payments. I (and other middle income working parents I know) appreciate the state collecting it. If it wasn't for that, who knows when these exes would pay up? (It would get expensive to keep dragging him/her in to court.)