"In the best interest of the child," our family courts have made the issue of child support completely separate from the issue of child visitation, now dubbed "parenting time."
It's easy to understand why they might do that. Certainly a person's economic status should not preclude them from the right to parent their child. It most certainly would not be good for children to veto their time with a parent because of some unnamed inability to support them.
Errr… wait. What the fuck?
So we're saying that you can go right ahead and "parent" without supporting your child in any conceivable way?
SINCE WHEN?
Maybe since we all decided that we can do whatever we want and someone ELSE will pay for it.
This burden falls first to custodial parents. The ones who have to make supporting their offspring a top priority and having "parenting time" a secondary one. Because if you do not support your children financially they will not have anything to eat, anywhere to sleep, any medical care to keep them healthy, any clothes to protect them from the elements. All of which they need first to survive, long before the argument of "their best interest" can even begin.
And if that custodial parent cannot afford to do this.. Who pays for it?
You do. And I do. And every tax payer does.
Just some thoughts. *puts soap box away*
I really shouldn't be allowed to get the mail. Just pisses me off.
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