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You have..............issues, my friend. Your daughter.........and subsequently, you..........got the raw end of the deal with her ex, to be sure. However, the point was a valid one: Why in GOD'S NAME would she stay with some asshole who beat her for eight freakin' years???? I just don't understand that, I've never understood that, and I never will understand that. NO excuse or pseudo-explanation can possibly work in such an instance. Next question. IF you knew about it, why did you "allow" this asshole to beat your daughter for eight years? If you didn't know about it, drop the last question and we'll label it "off the mark". However, I'll tell you this, as a father of seven: Any prick that beat one of MY daughters would be eating through a straw in an ICU for a long, long time.

First, when did I mention we were married?

Second, when did I mention this was a "daughter" (not that there's a familial relationship anyway) rather than a son?

Third, when did I mention that I have actually met this ex other than one time on the street very early in our relationship?

Fourth, when did I say that he beat her?

Fifth, please again explain to me how exactly her staying with him too long (she left the first time he got physical, but that's besides the point) or making a bad choice in boyfriends (let me guess, you and your kids never make mistakes. Typical of Freepers.) somehow resolves him of his legal obligations to his son. The focus of this is not on their relationship choices, but on the legal obligation owed by a father to his child(ren). It's a legal obligation. It's not about "Oh, she was a no-good two timer" (not the case, but an example) or "I don't want anything to do with him so leave me alone."

Conservatives want it both ways. They want the welfare pimps to stop rewarding the destruction of the nuclear family, but at the same time, want women to have to raise their kids and support themselves when 75% of the income supporting the family just disappears. So which do you want? More people on Medicare and welfare and less fathers around in any capacity? Or fathers actually supporting their kids and at least being men when they decide they don't want to be around anymore?

To me it sounds like you're encouraging men to not support their kids because of the bad choices their mothers make. So did my aunt who had a drunk in her house (she was married) with her and their three kids who terrorized them later on not deserve child support when the bum finally got kicked out?