The problem is that the child support procedure is mutually incompatible with current abortion laws.
If a child is created at conception, then both the mother and father can equally be ''held to account'' for the creation of the child, and the
consequent responsibilities and costs of the child's upbringing.
However, as the creation of a child is the 100% choice and responsibility of the woman, then I fail to see why the man should have to have anything to
do with the child.
Clearly, some ''mothers'' can't handle the responsibility of pregnancy and want to leech money off the man that they had sex with.
Involuntary Servitude, page 2
reply posted on 6-3-2012 @ 01:46 PM by thehoneycomb
reply to post by beezzer
No when a matter is resolved in the court, the child support pretty much becomes manditory. The only option made available to the custodial parent is whether or not to garnish the money from the non-custodial parents paychecks.
In the case of my wife, she married to the father of her child only to learn that during this time he had got another girl pregnant and when she filed for divorce, the judge would not honor her request without a child support order. He had moved to another state and has worked under the table ever since. 18 years later she still hasn't received a dime.
Isn't court ordered child support the last option? I mean, if you fathered a child, and voluntarily gave support, then court ordered never becomes an issue. Wouldn't court ordered child support be more punative in nature?
No when a matter is resolved in the court, the child support pretty much becomes manditory. The only option made available to the custodial parent is whether or not to garnish the money from the non-custodial parents paychecks.
In the case of my wife, she married to the father of her child only to learn that during this time he had got another girl pregnant and when she filed for divorce, the judge would not honor her request without a child support order. He had moved to another state and has worked under the table ever since. 18 years later she still hasn't received a dime.
reply posted on 7-3-2012 @ 07:40 AM by petrus4
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by korathin
That is a very wordy way of saying that the father should just be able to walk away and never support his child.
The bottom line is that, as men, at least some of us do have a genetic imperative to do that. Gays love saying that you don't get to choose your orientation; as far as I'm concerned, being polygamous hetero is as much an orientation in that sense, as homosexuality is.
Before you scream at me for writing this, understand that I'm celibate, as mentioned. That is because experience has shown me how much pain my orientation can cause, for both parties. My father was compulsively poly, although he was married to my mother for 35 years. My youngest brother is also now paying child support, and was rapidly serially monogamous before that.
It's easy for women to think that men who are in my situation are just assholes, and hate us for it accordingly. You don't have to live with the degree of internal conflict that the more morally inclined among us experience as a result of it. My libido is a curse.
If I really was an asshole, I would have gone and studied the proverbial pickup artist subculture, and learned to manipulate my way through numerous women, as other men have done. I've already been in one relationship as a result of using a small degree of such manipulation; lesson learned.
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reply posted on 7-3-2012 @ 08:21 AM by Kali74
reply to post by petrus4
Why would I scream at you? There's zero wrong with being polyamorous, just be honest about it and know that your chances of producing a child increase with this orientation. It negates nothing I said, you father a child...take responsibility for it.
Why would I scream at you? There's zero wrong with being polyamorous, just be honest about it and know that your chances of producing a child increase with this orientation. It negates nothing I said, you father a child...take responsibility for it.
reply posted on 7-3-2012 @ 08:43 AM by Raxoxane
reply to post by thehoneycomb
If you are named in a paternity suit,or expected to pay for child support,it would be wise to first demand blood tests,as proof of paternity.If you have any reason to doubt that you are the father.In South Africa you have that option,hope its the same in America?
If you are,its just one of those things,im a woman,maybe my perspective is different,but i dont see it as servitude,nor does my husband.Kids are VERY expensive to raise,to feed and clothe,medical insurance in case they get sick(btw,here its the same,Medical Insurance comes with your job,some companies only have one scheme,you are bound to that one)..My husbands whole salary practicaly goes into raising our kids.He gets a small salary,but he was aware that if you want to father a child,you should be able to support that child.And so we sacrifice what goodies we would want for ourselves,so our kids can have what they need,and occasionaly,just something they would like to have.They did not ask to be here,after all.
Not criticising you,just,if dont want the financial responsibility or hardship of supporting a child,make sure you use condoms,have a vasectomy,whatever,take all reasonable precautions.
If you are named in a paternity suit,or expected to pay for child support,it would be wise to first demand blood tests,as proof of paternity.If you have any reason to doubt that you are the father.In South Africa you have that option,hope its the same in America?
If you are,its just one of those things,im a woman,maybe my perspective is different,but i dont see it as servitude,nor does my husband.Kids are VERY expensive to raise,to feed and clothe,medical insurance in case they get sick(btw,here its the same,Medical Insurance comes with your job,some companies only have one scheme,you are bound to that one)..My husbands whole salary practicaly goes into raising our kids.He gets a small salary,but he was aware that if you want to father a child,you should be able to support that child.And so we sacrifice what goodies we would want for ourselves,so our kids can have what they need,and occasionaly,just something they would like to have.They did not ask to be here,after all.
Not criticising you,just,if dont want the financial responsibility or hardship of supporting a child,make sure you use condoms,have a vasectomy,whatever,take all reasonable precautions.
reply posted on 7-3-2012 @ 08:53 AM by Raxoxane
reply to post by Golf66
I agree with you there,that seems horrendously unfair.If you and your wife was briefly married and had no kids,you should not have to pay alimony,i mean,for what? She managed to keep herself alive,clothed and fed till you showed up..I am a woman,and i cannot even get my head around that one..
Unless you forced her to quit her highly paid career,and she can prove you forced her,thus putting her out of pocket,its ludicrous.Anyway,she still would have had the option of telling you: "As If!..please leave,and dont come back".
I agree with you there,that seems horrendously unfair.If you and your wife was briefly married and had no kids,you should not have to pay alimony,i mean,for what? She managed to keep herself alive,clothed and fed till you showed up..I am a woman,and i cannot even get my head around that one..
Unless you forced her to quit her highly paid career,and she can prove you forced her,thus putting her out of pocket,its ludicrous.Anyway,she still would have had the option of telling you: "As If!..please leave,and dont come back".
reply posted on 7-3-2012 @ 11:52 AM by thehoneycomb
reply to post by Raxoxane
In my case, she decided she wanted no future with me while she was pregnant because she was still in love with her ex who was an alcoholic with drug problems and later died of his alcholism. She was seduced by the child support system and when she was pregnant she threatened never to let me see my child. We had were no longer together at the point when I learned she had been sleeping with her ex at the same time as me so I had no issue leaving her, until a few weeks later she told me she was pregnant with my child. When I learned this I did everything in my power to keep my foot in the door, I even moved in with her and thats when her bi-polar abusive behavior started to show. She became so abusive during her pregnancy because in my opinion she was trying to justify her not wanting the father of her child (me) in her life, she was trying to paint me as the bad guy who doesn't care and tried to skate against responsibility. The abuse became so bad I eventually moved because there was no way for me to defend myself from it. After my child was born she took her ex to paternity test and denied me a paternity test, so I was going through the legal way, getting a court order. But after she confirmed he wasn't the father she went and filed for child support against me. I had still not had a paternity hearing.
Then I was served to show up in child support to make arrangements to pay child support. I said to the child support officer, why do you want to look at my finances, YOU have not established paternity yet. I have been trying to establish paternity and she had blocked me. So they ordered a date to establish paternity, once that was established they immediately started garnishing my wages.
My problem is not about giving financial support to my children I would give the world if I could, my problem is with supporting a liar and a mentally unstable manipulative mother who will stop at nothing, even hurting her own children to get what she wants. The honest truth is that I fear for my child's life and yet I am expected to finance the problem.
In my case, she decided she wanted no future with me while she was pregnant because she was still in love with her ex who was an alcoholic with drug problems and later died of his alcholism. She was seduced by the child support system and when she was pregnant she threatened never to let me see my child. We had were no longer together at the point when I learned she had been sleeping with her ex at the same time as me so I had no issue leaving her, until a few weeks later she told me she was pregnant with my child. When I learned this I did everything in my power to keep my foot in the door, I even moved in with her and thats when her bi-polar abusive behavior started to show. She became so abusive during her pregnancy because in my opinion she was trying to justify her not wanting the father of her child (me) in her life, she was trying to paint me as the bad guy who doesn't care and tried to skate against responsibility. The abuse became so bad I eventually moved because there was no way for me to defend myself from it. After my child was born she took her ex to paternity test and denied me a paternity test, so I was going through the legal way, getting a court order. But after she confirmed he wasn't the father she went and filed for child support against me. I had still not had a paternity hearing.
Then I was served to show up in child support to make arrangements to pay child support. I said to the child support officer, why do you want to look at my finances, YOU have not established paternity yet. I have been trying to establish paternity and she had blocked me. So they ordered a date to establish paternity, once that was established they immediately started garnishing my wages.
My problem is not about giving financial support to my children I would give the world if I could, my problem is with supporting a liar and a mentally unstable manipulative mother who will stop at nothing, even hurting her own children to get what she wants. The honest truth is that I fear for my child's life and yet I am expected to finance the problem.
reply posted on 8-3-2012 @ 02:02 AM by korathin
Originally posted by Raxoxane
reply to post by thehoneycomb
If you are named in a paternity suit,or expected to pay for child support,it would be wise to first demand blood tests,as proof of paternity.If you have any reason to doubt that you are the father.In South Africa you have that option,hope its the same in America?
If you are,its just one of those things,im a woman,maybe my perspective is different,but i dont see it as servitude,nor does my husband.Kids are VERY expensive to raise,to feed and clothe,medical insurance in case they get sick(btw,here its the same,Medical Insurance comes with your job,some companies only have one scheme,you are bound to that one)..My husbands whole salary practicaly goes into raising our kids.He gets a small salary,but he was aware that if you want to father a child,you should be able to support that child.And so we sacrifice what goodies we would want for ourselves,so our kids can have what they need,and occasionaly,just something they would like to have.They did not ask to be here,after all.
Not criticising you,just,if dont want the financial responsibility or hardship of supporting a child,make sure you use condoms,have a vasectomy,whatever,take all reasonable precautions.
This my friends is a perfect example of a traditionalist matriarch. Now if abortion was outlawed(even incases of rape etc), then I could agree more or less with this statement. But, living in the world that we do, the only one who had a say was you. Because for all we know, the extraction of the necessary DNA could of been done in his sleep without his consent.
And why you are not working to contribute to the raising of your children is beyond me, and hiding the issue behind children is a very under handed thing to do.
In America, Paternity Fraud is a complicated issue. Well not really all that complicated. A couple years back a lot of states set out to fix a wrong in the system, but feminist's protested. Saying it would make women's lives too difficult, and a few states like California refused to do anything because they would lose a lot of money.
You see for every dollar the States collect in child support, the Federal government gives them 1 dollar to spend on whatever the States want. Hence why I view your notions as evil and people like you as evil. Because the Judges try to jack up the Child Support amounts to the point that a good number of payees are borderline homeless. Add in the epidemic levels of divorce in America, + all the other anti male gendered discrimination in America....
As far as I am concerned you come across as a lazy female supremacist who uses her husband as a domesticated animal, a beast of burden, a slave.
reply posted on 8-3-2012 @ 11:39 AM by thehoneycomb
reply to post by korathin
I think she stated she was posting from South Africa, so while I can agree with you on this point I think I should also point out that the system in South Africa or wherever she is posting from may be very different from that here in the US. Just to be fair.
I think she stated she was posting from South Africa, so while I can agree with you on this point I think I should also point out that the system in South Africa or wherever she is posting from may be very different from that here in the US. Just to be fair.
reply posted on 16-3-2012 @ 06:30 AM by Helious
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by korathin
That is a very wordy way of saying that the father should just be able to walk away and never support his child.
I see it as a very wordy way to say he's right and your obviously wrong. Perspective I guess is in the eye of the beholder. Btw....... He's right, your wrong.
It is a women's right to choose correct? The "father" has no say if the mother keeps or aborts the child correct? The government doesn't bother concerning themselves with that small detail correct?
That being the case, I'm sorry but it is ultimately the mothers responsibility to either stop having unprotected sex with random guys they don't wan't a family with or get themselves on birth control, after all, it is YOUR choice, it's never ours.
Thanks.
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reply posted on 16-3-2012 @ 06:47 AM by Sestias
reply to post by thehoneycomb
You say that the individual mandate under health care reform is like Nazi Germany? So you're saying that people shouldn't have to have coverage, they can just leech off the health care system for free and let those with insurance pay for it? What about forced ultrasounds? To me that's a more totalitarian move than health care reform is.
But actually, I'm tired of all the comparisons to Hitler we see on ATS and elsewhere. It's a rhetorical strategy called Reductio ad Hitlerum. Anything one doesn't like is automatically likened to Nazi Germany. It's an easy epithet to throw around and doesn't give serious thought to what Nazi Germany actually was.
You say that the individual mandate under health care reform is like Nazi Germany? So you're saying that people shouldn't have to have coverage, they can just leech off the health care system for free and let those with insurance pay for it? What about forced ultrasounds? To me that's a more totalitarian move than health care reform is.
But actually, I'm tired of all the comparisons to Hitler we see on ATS and elsewhere. It's a rhetorical strategy called Reductio ad Hitlerum. Anything one doesn't like is automatically likened to Nazi Germany. It's an easy epithet to throw around and doesn't give serious thought to what Nazi Germany actually was.
reply posted on 16-3-2012 @ 07:55 AM by Pixiefyre
reply to post by thehoneycomb
First off I just want you to know that all women are not like the woman you had such an awful experience with.
As far as I know with so much focus on child abuse prevention, these days even the threat of abuse in front of a child is grounds to gain custody from the abusive parent. But you would have to go to court about it.
I divorced my husband when my daughter was 6 due to his abusing me...and in front of her. I knew he wouldn't hurt her..just me and I didn't want to put her through being a witness in a trial. I wanted what was best for her. I was the custodial parent and he had visitation..not according to the court mandates but according to her wishes. So far as child support goes, in Illinois at that time it was mandatory 20% of the non-custodial parents income. I did not ask for anything more....ever. He and I worked hard to ensure that she didn't have to see what she saw when we were married, we are now good friends and she's now 22.
Not everyone is as difficult as what you've experienced
First off I just want you to know that all women are not like the woman you had such an awful experience with.
As far as I know with so much focus on child abuse prevention, these days even the threat of abuse in front of a child is grounds to gain custody from the abusive parent. But you would have to go to court about it.
I divorced my husband when my daughter was 6 due to his abusing me...and in front of her. I knew he wouldn't hurt her..just me and I didn't want to put her through being a witness in a trial. I wanted what was best for her. I was the custodial parent and he had visitation..not according to the court mandates but according to her wishes. So far as child support goes, in Illinois at that time it was mandatory 20% of the non-custodial parents income. I did not ask for anything more....ever. He and I worked hard to ensure that she didn't have to see what she saw when we were married, we are now good friends and she's now 22.
Not everyone is as difficult as what you've experienced
reply posted on 16-3-2012 @ 08:10 AM by shushu
reply to post by thehoneycomb
I'm surprised nobody has stated the obvious. Children are used as leverage... by the State as well as by their families.
"I've got kids... I should have priority." "You have children... you must follow these rules/laws."
That's part of the reason some of these people are incessant breeders... TO GAIN PRIORITY. They use their kids as GD bargaining chips. While in the same context... the gov't uses those same kids to control/manipulate household behaviors and lifestyles.
I'm surprised nobody has stated the obvious. Children are used as leverage... by the State as well as by their families.
"I've got kids... I should have priority." "You have children... you must follow these rules/laws."
That's part of the reason some of these people are incessant breeders... TO GAIN PRIORITY. They use their kids as GD bargaining chips. While in the same context... the gov't uses those same kids to control/manipulate household behaviors and lifestyles.
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