[Conservative Actuary]

I’m sorry you had a child you need to provide for it.

[PapaBear3625]

I’m sorry you had a child you need to provide for it.

The point of the article is that the child support amounts exceed the ability of the fathers to pay. Even with jail hanging over their heads.

[RogerFGay]

I’m sorry you had a child you need to provide for it.

Did you have a child that you didn't provide for?

[Enterprise]

"I’m sorry you had a child you need to provide for it."

So if the father gets laid off his job it's ok to take away his drivers license and put him in jail because he's not providing support? And I promise you, this DOES happen!

[TKDietz]

A lot of times child support gets set too high to begin with, or the noncustodial parent will lose his job and not have the money to hire a lawyer to get the support reduced or temporarily abated. It can really add up quickly and before you know it there are civil contempt and criminal nonsupport cases going against the guy at the same time. They'll take his drivers license from him, and any professional license he needs to make a living, and every time he gets a job he'll lose it because he gets thrown in jail again. It can become a real nightmare for these people even when they are doing their best to do the right thing.

[wardaddy]

as someone who paid out 48,000 dollars per year from 1995 till 2007 and all the plane tickets, medical bills, braces, insurance and today is paying for two colleges ...one private and one public and all after my ex-wife left me for a old fat guy who makes at a million a year I can tell you that divorce and child support is not as simple as you think

it is mostly pure unaccounted for alimony...

and what the wife did good or bad has nothing to do with it...she will get the kids unless she doesn’t want them in 99% of cases

women who don’t need it get too much and women who do need don’t get enough

this is blowback from free sex, feminism and no fault divorce....basically a clusterf^^k

I did the right thing, in the end I got the eldest daughter the second she could leave, the younger loves living in an environment of no structure

ex-wife is now divorced again and dates boys 25 years younger than her

men should be very very careful especially if they come into it with high earning potential

women will use children against you....even good women will find that weapon hard to resist..