If the shoe was on the other foot - a woman lost her job, the courts would never let her get away with letting her children starve to death because she "didn't have the money". She would have to figure it out. Same for the man.
The slavery - or very close to it - that exists in Dubai - is NOTHING like paying to support your own children. Sickoflibs is great on many issues - love his economic stuff, but I don't see his stance on child support.
In fact, many of the people working in Dubai are there to support their children - children living in countries that are hell on earth for the poor. They work to send money home - and what's left of the 25 to 50 cents an hour they earn, they "live" on. Many of these good men who go to Dubai for work to feed their families will die there in the process.
Hard for me to feel too sorry for some American dad who doesn't want to support his kids - knowing that the working men who go to Dubai to send money home for their kids - often give up their lives for their children.