Deadbeat parents cost taxpayers $53 billion

VTXJOCKEY
VTXJOCKEY Posts: 362 Member
This really pisses me off! I go to work every day and pay my support, on time! WTH can't the others do it? Quite the sore subject for me. I could go on but I won't.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/05/news/economy/unpaid-child-support/index.html?source=cnn_bin

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  • SherryR1971
    SherryR1971 Posts: 1,170 Member
    I know! I pay mine every month, and my sister can hardly get any help from hers! It is crazy!
  • BubblySharon
    BubblySharon Posts: 96 Member
    My ex owes me over 20 grand in child support for our 4 kids... I'll never see it, but Maintenance Enforcement up here in Canada is trying to collect, therefore costing money... It is crazy. It took two to make the baby, it should be two helping to raise it financially as well as physically.
  • tmauck4472
    tmauck4472 Posts: 1,785 Member
    I have a brother in law that is over 30 thousand in the hole with child support. I can't stand him. And yet he can't understand why his kids want nothing to do with him. Even though I've told him why, he's still clueless. Yeah he's not my favorite person.
  • I must say, my ex pays...always and on-time. I am blessed that he does! Most of the people I hang with are responsible when it comes to child support, but I know there are many who either don't pay or use it as a weapon.
  • Dub_D
    Dub_D Posts: 1,760 Member
    I go to work every day and pay my support, on time! WTH can't the others do it?

    Many possible reasons.. medical issues, drug addictions, some make less than when their order was granted but don't have the resources to go back to court, and yes, some are just deadbeats who don't care.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    This really pisses me off! I go to work every day and pay my support, on time! WTH can't the others do it? Quite the sore subject for me. I could go on but I won't.

    http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/05/news/economy/unpaid-child-support/index.html?source=cnn_bin

    It pisses me off too! The deadbeat parents who refuse to maintain employment just make me sick. I think that we should have a program that creates manual labor jobs for these people, like the old school prison chain gangs. Give them a cot and enough food to survive and use the funds made toward child support.
  • Z_I_L_L_A
    Z_I_L_L_A Posts: 2,399 Member
    My X doesn't pay and doesn't really have a relationship with my kids. Deadbeat mom...and I struggle to take care of my kids without help from anyone. I do get a couple of things out of it though. I've raised the kids to be strong,independent and self sufficient. What I get out of it is every time I go to the gym I have a great workout. Every time I lift the weights I think about her and it fuels my workout.
  • VTXJOCKEY
    VTXJOCKEY Posts: 362 Member
    This really pisses me off! I go to work every day and pay my support, on time! WTH can't the others do it? Quite the sore subject for me. I could go on but I won't.

    http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/05/news/economy/unpaid-child-support/index.html?source=cnn_bin

    It pisses me off too! The deadbeat parents who refuse to maintain employment just make me sick. I think that we should have a program that creates manual labor jobs for these people, like the old school prison chain gangs. Give them a cot and enough food to survive and use the funds made toward child support.


    Now, there's an idea! I have zero tolerance for irresponsibility!
  • serena569
    serena569 Posts: 427 Member
    There are always two sides. My dad didn't pay for a couple years. After his 4th heart attack, he was advised to quit his stressful job. He took a lower paying position and spent those years trying to get it lowered. When it finally was, back support and interest was not waived because it was owed to the state to cover part of the AFDC we received.

    It's hard to fight the system even when the system is wrong. In my dad's case, if my parents were still married, our household income would have gone down. But, because they were divorced, it was automatically assumed that he was the only one who should suffer and he was a deadbeat dad. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot that the tide rises and falls equally.

    He was still paying out of his social security when the 5th heart attack killed him. (I was his youngest and I was in my 30s when he died.)