I understand and agree that children do need to be supported by both parents, but I believe that the system is old and flawed. The child support system was created years and years ago and society has dramatically changed as we have moved into the future. Child support payments should be in the form of a card or something that forces the receiving parent to actually spend the money on the child it is intended for. I have heard/read time and time again on the news or in the paper of how a child is neglected because the parent is spending the child support money on drugs or alcohol. There is no system set up to protect the child. Why do I see on loan applications lines for extra income such as child support allowed to be used to pay for a vehicle or loan, when that money is strictly supposed to be spent on the child? That money is not for the other parent to shop and do whatever for themselves but it often is and ultimately the child suffers.
Everyone can have children but not everyone can be a parent!
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What's wrong with this is that the custodial parent, whether it's mom or dad, is paying ALL the cost of raising the child and child support just pays some. The custodial parent pays all the rent or mortgage of the house the child lives in, all the food for the household, all the cost of clothes and medical for everyone in their household and child support goes into the pot and the holder of the pot pays all the bills out of the pot, however they please. You're deluding yourself if you think what you're paying in child support fully supports your child, I very seriously doubt that. And, requiring some way of enforcing that child support is ONLY used to support the child its paid for (and how do you propose that gets done?) that's still not going to stop the jerks that spend all the rest of the money on themselves - they'll just spend less of their own on their kids, just as they do now. My experience has been that non-custodial parents who whine as you are about their support money ONLY being spent precisely on the child and the other parent having to PROVE that's what they did indicates that you either are (1) NOT paying your child support and trying to get out of it or (2) you had to be forced by the court to pay your child support as you wouldn't just do it yourself and now you're wriggling as hard as you can to get out of it or to continue somehow punishing your ex.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree: http://www.rebelwords.org/2011/07/letter-to-the-oregon-child-support-program-part-ii/
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