Avoid the Child Support System
The truth about the child support system is that it was created for all the wrong reasons. First, child support was created as a welfare recovery system meaning that the federal government wanted to recover the expense of supporting single low-income mothers and decided to recover that expense from single low-income fathers. Second, our government didn’t trust low-income, typically parents of color, to be good parents. Dads couldn’t be trusted to support their children and moms couldn’t be trusted to care for their children without the help of a man or government.
The result was the creation of an enforcement system that pits parents against one another, gives parents a reason to fight over custody, exacerbates parental conflict, and diminishes child safety, health, and well being.
Truth About Child Support
Most Parents Are Good
Most every parent wants to provide for their child to the best of their ability, amicable parents figure it out easily enough every day. Those parents don’t pay child support. Instead, they simply share the expense of raising their kids. Because it’s for the kids, they avoid the typical arguments about how much is being paid and what’s the money for. They share expenses and reimburse each other with ease. Start here to create a more peaceful co-parenting future for children and yourself.
Parents who make more often pick up a larger share. When a parent is tight on money, the other often helps cover. Since it’s for the kids and not the other, it’s easy.
The child support system is one system you want to make sure you avoid. Even if the other isn’t living up to their responsibilities or obligations, the child support system will make both parents and the children more frustrated.
Resetting Your Future
If you and your family have the misfortune of getting caught up in the child support system, just know that there is a way out. It’s hard and not for everyone. But, if you have had enough and want a more joyful future without all the conflict for yourself and your children, you have the power to reset your future.
