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I gave up hoping for the system to get better a while ago. Nothing short of a sane, constitutional ruling by the Nine in DC will stop this from getting any worse. I'll bet they refuse to hear it. But considering some of the rulings they have handed down in the past few weeks, if they do take this up, there is no way they will do anything but affirm the Georgia SC since these cases take place in civil court and have become an enormous part of social end ecconomic policy at the federal, state and local levels. To do otherwise would be similar to declaring the federal income tax unconstitutional...it's just too big a part of government and a politically acceptable way control how people live and to transfer wealth without any risk of voter backlash for either political party. Governments NEVER relinquish this kind of power once they have it (short of the government collapsing, ala Soviet Union). Almost every state is in fiscal trouble, and no one is going to do anything to risk losing the $4 billion in federal subsidies that those states receive just on the support collection end alone. Can anyone here honestly see five of the Nine handing down a ruling telling 50 states to scrap the bogus income-shares system, forcing them to recalculate every support order to account for actual costs and to take into consideration the money that fathers need to directly support their kids while they stay them?...hardly...maybe 50 years ago, but not today and not with the current court.

As for me, I'm just going to try and make the best of a system and and society that are totally biased against fathers and try to enjoy the 99 days a year that they have so graciously allowed me to be a dad. Over the next 4 years and two months until my only child turns 18, that gives me 404 days that I'll have with her....I'll cherish each one.

To be absolutely blunt, ANY man who knows who how crooked this system is and doesn't get a vasectomy is a damn fool. The monetary risk are enourmous, but they are pale and down-right trivial in comparison to the emotional and psychological toll they will have to pay when their business arrangement (we used to call this "marriage") falls apart. I'm just glad I don't have a son who will have to go through this mess when he grows up.