This wouldn’t be the case if BOTH parents were required to both support and raise the child (hands-on, not long distance), regardless of marital status.
EITC has been available to single parents for quite a while now.....a very big check every year.....at our expense...
In theory, that’s a sound idea but, who’s going to “require” it? Government? Do we need more intrusion?
“This wouldn’t be the case if BOTH parents were required to both support and raise the child (hands-on, not long distance), regardless of marital status.”
This wouldnt be the case if BOTH parents had a say in becomming parents.
The vast majority of middle-class employed fathers support their kids
What you are seeing are the effects of underclass women getting pregnant by males who CANNOT be made to pay (because their income comes from crime, or they are in prison, or they are dead, or the woman never learned their right name in the first place).
Lorianne: would you think it a good idea to FORCE a drug dealer to be in the same residence as young children?
It’s one thing to require someone to support their child and it is already a law- and most states are quite tough enforcing it; but there will always be deadbeats no matter what the law is. My oldest daughter is a single mom after divorce- she divorced her husband when he got on meth and went off the deep end three years ago. Over the last three years he has been in and out of rehab, and various jails. When he is not in jail or rehab. he sleeps at his grandparents house. He has no assets, he has no job, he already lost his driver’s license. His family supports him and he steals from people to raise money for drugs. How are you going to make people like him pay child support?
Many of the single mom’s out there have the same story, and it is sad that they and their children depend on taxpayers to survive- but what is the answer? My daughter has never been on public assistance of any kind. We figure she and our grandson are our responsilility. She is going to nursing school and working- but we help her out with rent and groceries and whatever emergencies come up. If we just could not afford to help her then she would need public assistance. There really are no easy solutions.