[Mamzelle]

Whining over child support and its inequities (of which I'm sure are many) is one of the incessant background noises on FR. Wonder if they were whining while the kids were being made? My sympathies are rather mixed. It's not an eternal sentence, after all, eighteen years at most. Their kids must really enjoy listening to the b&tching...makes them feel truly loved! I know the women aren't to be depended on in the expenditure of their support...but we all have to live with our mistakes. Kids can't help their parents, but parents must help their kids. If money is all the help they get, so be it.

[Z in Oregon]

Fathers, except where proven criminally unfit, should automatically receive custody of all their children. Their ex-wives can pay child support, and visit the kids every other Tuesday. Also, the father should automatically get the house, and a share of his ex-wives income. The ex-wife should lose her driver's license and any professional licenses, and face jail time if she falls behind in her child support payments. Also, the father should in no way be held accountable for how he spends that child support money.