[DNA Rules]

The "best interests of the child" has long been conflated with "what the mother wants". Momma wants $320,000 a month? She gets it. Men out there, do three things: be a co-equal caregiver of all your kids from birth, even if so being entails career sacrifice; get a prenup; fight like everything depended on it in the event of a divorce.

[Brytani]

That won't even help in some cases. There are men in this country, in all states, that have 50/50 shared parenting (child lives with them 50% of the time) and yet they still pay child support to their ex-wives.

My husband in fact, was told by the courts in Texas for over a year to continue paying his ex-wife child support even though one son was living with his Grandparents at the time and the other was living with us. I know previously in this country parents were let off the hook when it came to supporting their children (I'm talking both parents here) but now the tide has swung way to far to the other side.