>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SHMIV wrote:Of all the folks that I have known to fall behind on child support, I'm the only one that can legally possess a gun. (Apparently, when you find out that you are the father of a three year old, you get to pay 3 years of back child support. )
Outside of garnishing wages, I really can't think of anything else that will make a negligent parent pay child support. And, that doesn't work well, either. The negligent parent just quits working when the garnishment starts.
Of course, if they brought back public humiliation. ...
As was previously stated, this has nothing to do with encouraging responsible parenting, anyway. Most folks that aren't paying child support are felons, anyway, (at least, that's been my personal observation) so any permit that gets yanked will be a bonus for that schmuck.
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I really do feel strongly that if you father children you should support them. But sometimes there is no small amount of abuse to the detriment of defaulting daddies. What sometimes happens is that mamma leaves and files for welfare (or sometimes that mamma doesn't tell papa there's a bun in the oven) and later there's welfare benefits to reimburse or child support (both current and arrearages) to pay. And sometimes the delinquent daddy knows of the kid and just tries not to pay. At any rate, the amount owed, due if nothing else to the passage of time, usually dwarfs the poor sod's earning capacity; and when the folks at the Division of Child Support Enforcement (who all seem to me to be man-hating militant feminists) send out those Orders to Withhold and Deliver, they commonly leave the poor delinquent daddy with less money per payday than he requires to maintain minimal shelter and feed himself. Last time I checked they were not required to leave the debtor with the greater of 30 times the minimum wage or 1/3 of his disposable income as with a garnishment, and it seems they never do. If you happen to have one who is a good worker and you give him a raise, they raise the amount they take. So the delinquent papa usually quits and goes elsewhere; where he works until the first quarterly withholding reports from the new employer allow the support collectors to find him and take all his money again; at which time he quits and moves yet again. I've actually talked to a few of the militant ladies at the Division of Child Support Enforcement and pointed out that this does not help the mother or the children. On every such occasion, I was told the just plain didn't care about that; their job was to put the screws to the delinquent daddy. I had one of these guys, when I told him that sooner or later some judge was going to throw his butt in jail, that if they did that at least they had to give him a roof and four walls and 3 square meals a day, and that the support order didn't leave him that. Sad, but typical of scheme concocted by the government to "help people" or "dispense social justice".
