It’s actually a Catch-22. If they sue for child support, he won’t pay it but he will get visitation.
My wife’s cousin went through this. She didn’t want to lose the baby every weekend to the daddy’s momma if the daddy wasn’t going to pay anyway. It would have been years before they packed daddy off to jail but would still lose the child every weekend.
Up here, the girls encourage the baby daddy to go into the military. The military sends the check.
Sadly, none of these guys would have gone into the military or even qualified for it (because of their multiple felonies). In addition, there was a huge age difference between the girls and the guys who had gotten them pregnant, and some of the men were bordering on being too old for the military.
There was one girl in this class who had been made pregnant by a man 20 years her senior - who actually was already “supporting” (i.e., giving $10 a month) 5 other children by other girls. He claimed to have some 20 children, btw; the others just weren’t collecting from him.
Until people in these strata - “commnunties” is too generous - get a little self respect and some understanding of marriage, nothing is going to improve for them. Meanwhile, our very own government is tearing down marriage.
So I guess it’s going to be Holy Mother the State for all, and the State makes a lousy mother. Or father.