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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 02/23/04
Lynch from IN said:
wow! first I have to commend you, for being asrong young man and surviving. Your main resposiblity is to stay in school, don't let the ignorance of your parents keep you from getting an education. 2nd you should try and find shelter in a group home, they can help you get on your feet and even take your parents to court for you to get some type of support. formost you need a place to lay you head down, the group home will provide that, continue going to school, and afterwards decide on going to college or the military to help the guidance needed unil you get on your feet,stay strong.
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On 02/21/04
John from AZ said:
Not so. It is the responsibility of the father to support the child. It is shameful when a man takes child support money from a woman. Disgraceful! Men have a moral obligation to support their children and the others who bore their fruit. This is the way it should be. In Italy a man is ordered to support both mother and child, not just the child. Wwomen are forced to raise their kids, and support them at the same time, it is the child who suffers.
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On 02/19/04
missy from TX said:
excuse me but women can take caution also when having sex...its not just the man lady! most women who get child support are wild sluts anyway and dont even have the child with them all the time
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On 02/13/04
stepmom from NC said:
North Carolina child support laws are very biased toward the "dead beat" mom's. My husband has given 40% of his income to his ex while she has sat on her butt...she doesn't even parent the kids well and in fact we now have one (of two) living with us...
It takes two to make the baby and it should be the responsibility of TWO to support them financially (not just the dad).
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On 01/29/04
Nicole from VA said:
I have two step-children. My husband pays out $600.00/month. Which i have no problem with, except his ex and her husband do not work. Neither of them work. From my understanding CHILD SUPPORT is to help support the children, Right? I do not think it is right for their mother and her husband to live off the child support. She also has taken them out of school and supposively teaching them herself. The kids are at the age (one is 6 and one is 9) that education is very very important. Now, their mother is not college grad. nor a high school grad. Is this right, and what can my husband do?
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