"The system of collecting child support is no longer one of requiring men to take responsibility for their offspring, as most people believe. The combination of 'no fault' divorce and the new enforcement law has created a system that pays mothers to divorce their husbands and remove children from fathers."
This engineering is working well in New Zealand too to break down family units. Men are becoming the new underclass. In many cases their assets are stripped and they are broken by very tight access arrangements to their children. The Family Court is closed, so not everyone is aware of the scale of this process.
Instead of "nationwide," I should have said "international" in my last post. What happened in the US, happened at about the same time in New Zealand, Australia, throughout Great Britain, and changes were made in other European countries as well -- more recently even Sweden. (The government of Sweden is now reviewing the problem and might do something to fix it.)
Federal reform of the child support system has been the most significant part of welfare reform in the US over the past 15 years. The purpose of the reforms was to 1.) federalize the child support system, 2.) extend the welfare system's formulae and enforcement methods to non-welfare cases, and 3.) adapt to defined and as yet undefined international standards. The acceptance of reforms has been aided considerably by support from groups representing segments of the population which have profited directly from the initial increases in child support awards, primarily divorced, middle class mothers.
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What should be regarded as the greatest mistake in the reform movement, as well as the greatest embarrassment to the United States is that the domestic political discussion has consisted almost exclusively of propaganda demonizing non-custodial parents. In the background, the American public has been aware of "The New World Order" in relation to the fall of the Soviet Union, and generally understand that new global trade agreements have been and are being forged. But not a hint of information has been fed to the general public on integration of or "cooperation" in an array of social programs or the impact of global integration on our domestic judicial system. Had the government made a greater effort at full disclosure, the American public would surely have responded with pressure to adapt newly proposed systems to Constitutional requirements.
Source:
The Child Support Guideline Problem