| Speak Up! Topics |
 |
| (61) |
| (5) |
| (6) |
| (5) |
| (4) |
| (44) |
| (25) |
| (187) |
| (67) |
| (219) |
| (23) |
| (17) |
| (91) |
| (15) |
| (16) |
| (15) |
| (378) |
| (118) |
| (31) |
| (34) |
| (8) |
| (87) |
| (6) |
| (107) |
| (24) |
|
|
 |
Speak Up! - View Question #174 |
 printer friendly version
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.
|
|
| Comments |
| 6 thru 10 of 40 comments |
1 [ 2 ] 3 4 5 ...
|
|
On 08/03/05
clair from FL said:
this is a response to tina from florida.i am a child born out of wed lock and my mother has raised me without the help of my absent parent. she said she was beaten also while she was dating him, but she did admit she would start agruements with my father cause of money issues. they are now separated and she has raised me prefectly fine without the need of CHILD SUPPORT she said its for mothers that are bitter with the absent fathers or have personal issues. my mother has taught me well and i agree with her in one thing, if the father is absent his lose,get over it if he pays good for the KID..
|
On 02/16/05
pricella from CA said:
i agree with adriana... a person should be responsible before bring a child to this world ..get to know who you are dating and once you graduate from college take the step of marriage then kids... but yes the mother should keep a job ... not just the father ,,, who do they think they are ... i think fathers are great people its the mothers that agrivate them ..be real tina .. really think about why your husband would beat you.. over and over that is so sobby... please.... dont you have better things to do .. this is for kids not for parents to insult the kids .i bet you got c/p out of anger.
|
On 02/16/05
adriana from CT said:
this is for tina from florida ...1st of all the site is for kids not adults and sobby stories...i do have the facts about my parents ..if you were beaten is probably because you agrivated him in some kind of way now im 17 yrs old and you mentioned that you were beaten more then once then why did you stay....hah! you should of left him and got a job and never bothered with him again ,,, but no you had to get child support and possible alimony hah? well i think you need to be an example to your child ..money is not everything ,,,what about love ....i beat you dont even mention that to your kid..
|
On 06/10/04
tina from FL said:
Before you judge the other mother make sure you get your facts straights. You don't know what your Dad took her through or what happen between that mom and your dad. My daughter asked me why do I get child support for her and her brother and told her that the support was to help me take care of them. She thought I was unfair to her Dad. she wanted us to get back together.(I was beaten on a daily basis by a man that I loved and hope to spend the rest of my life with My daughter thought I was lying, I told her to ask her Dad and she did, he told her all he did.
|
On 04/13/04
NICOLE from CA said:
I LIVE WITH MY MOTHER AND FATHER, MY FATHER HAD KIDS BEFORE I WAS BORN THAY ARE ALMOST 18 I HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM MY FAHTER PAYS CHILD SUPPORT TO THE MOTHER FOR TWO DAUGHTERS. MY FATHER ALWAYS HAS WORKED HARD HE DOES NOT GET CREDIT FOR WHAT HE DOES FROM THE OTHER KIDS MOTHER SHE ALWAYS BOTHERS US AND TELLS MY FATHER MEAN THINGS. YET HE HAS NEVER TALKED BAD ABOUT HER. WELL NOW HIS OLDER DAUGHTERS ARE JUST LIKE THE MOTHER GREEDY AND ENVIOUS OF OUR LIFE. SHE HAS RAISED THEM TO ONLY THINK ABOUT MONEY NOT ABOUT THEIR FATHER I THINK SINGLE MOTHERS SELFISH AND GIVE PAYING FATHERS A BAD IMAGE.
|
| 6 thru 10 of 40 comments |
1 [ 2 ] 3 4 5 ...
|
|
|
|
| Read more about the law and Family |
|
|
