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These ridiculous rules were enacted to protect kids but they never did. I was a child of divorce in the 50's. My Dad never paid a dime of child support. My Mom even found my Dad, spending precious funds on a private investigator. We gave the court his address but they never did anything. Mom worked a variety of jobs, at a theater, as a waitress and finally as a personal secretary to an executive. That secretary gig lasted 4 years then the company moved. Back to being a sales clerk and 50 ways to eat hamburger. We couldn't afford a fancy lawyer. These women in the article are manipulating the laws that were meant to protect kids in the situation we were in. Too bad they never did. My Dad just died in March. His 4th wife got everything. Do I care? Not really but I'd have loved to have been mentioned for getting some kind of momento or keepsake. The law can't change a selfish, thoughtless Dad, they just enrich a conniving wife.

The laws were written to presume that every father is a deadbeat philanderer who left his innocent flower of a devoted housewife for a barmaid trollop-floozy gold-digger, and that the guy must is living it up and partying every night with his new trophy harlot while his sainted long-suffering ex feeds the kids warmed over macaroni each night as she patiently moves jars and buckets to catch the rain that drops through holes of the shack she and the kids are forced to live in.

That's the feminist-proferred image that laws and rulings are wrapped around.

Reality---in most cases---is much different!