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Speak Up! - View Question #174 |
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Question: Why do parents have to pay child surport?
Answer: Society believes that parents have a duty to support the children that they bring into the world, because the children cannot support themselves. Before recent times parents usually lived together and worked together. The food and other things that they produced and earned was shared in the family with the children and any other family members who lived with them or nearby.
In the twentieth century divorce became possible and then became more and more common. Usually the children in a divorce stay with one parent and the other parent moves away. Child support is a way for the state to make certain that the parent who moves away supports his or her children to some extent.
If the parents were still living together, they would spend more on the children or less depending upon raises in salary or the loss of a job. The court (in Arizona, and in most other states) will also raise or lower child support depending upon the how much each of the parents earn.
Society is so very concerned about the child being supported properly that even if the parents try to agree in their divorce decree on a set amount of child support, the court may not approve this agreement. The court will very likely change child support even if the parents agreed not to, if one of them proves to the court at a later date that changing child support would be in the best interest of the minor children.
Child support is not meant to punish one parent or to reward the other. It is only to ensure that the parent who has the most responsibility for supporting the children is given some help by the other.
If the parents spend an equal amount of time with the children, and are responsible for an equal amount of the cost to raise them, (e.g. one child lives with each parent, or they alternate weeks at each parent's house) then the court may very well order no child support to be paid at all.
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On 05/16/06
sheila from TX said:
If you do not want the responsibility of paying for a child then it is simple.... Do not participate in the act of creating the child. All of you females that complain because your new husband pays cs...ha just think it could be you and your children that he was trying to skip out on. Men take care of your kids our society is so full of poor fatherless kids, somebody needs to take a stand and see that we are only hurting the children when we try to get out of the financial part of raising children.
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On 01/30/06
Curt from AL said:
My Exwife and I divorced two years ago. We have always had a pretty good relationship when it comes to raising our two boys jointly. Now after working two jobs and going without alot of things to keep their childhood home, I got a promotion and can live on a single job income. Problem is now my ex is suing for partial support. I don't know what to do. Do I have any rights? We have joint custody.
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On 09/26/05
monte from MS said:
This is for Roberta frm Al. Why do you insist on getting childsupport from your ex? That does not make him a father. On the other hand it will make you a mother if you just raise your child with the income you have, after all it takes two to tango. Your child does not need to pay the price for mistakes you both made. Be a responsible mother and move on. Money is not everything ... Try to show that to your child instead of being miserable waiting for money for a absent parent. What are you going to tell your child that you had to beg for support???? come on. If your in the service be an example
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On 09/20/05
amy from CA said:
me and my boyfriend of 3 years are rasing 3 boys two are his one is mine, we have none toghter, but my son dosent see his dad and his boys moms arent really there, well the mest up thing is he pays child suport for one of his, and he lives here, and goes to school here, it really mest up and when we went to court to stop it, then she wanted him back, all she wanted was the money, so really its not always the dad, and may be the babymohter tooo.
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On 09/19/05
Roberta from AL said:
I am a single mother in the USAF, so I work for my money. My son is 2 years old. I am stationed about 2 1/2 hoours away form my ex and I have tried repeatedely to get him to settle out of court for an extremely low amount. Now he is trying to paint me as a money hungery "baby's mama". I completely agree with those who are fed up with mothers who are recieving Child Support and not trying to get on their feet but that is not all. Even after I get married I will continue to receve Child Support because if that is the only way I can make sure he is there for our son, so be it!
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