5 Legal Rights Women Have That Men Don’t (primarily USA focused)

[Mr Khan]

Jlaff said:

Mr Khan said:

This is because of the problem of deadbeat parents, post-divorce. They had to be "harder" on non-custodial parents simply because of the long history of the deadbeat dad (though i don't doubt there were more than a few deadbeat moms as well). I understand that the laws certainly look unfair, but consider this: if we loosened the guidelines for child support payments, how many people would choose to pay the bare minimum? If there was an option to find a legal way out, how many people would just take it, and then the old deadbeat parent problem comes back.

The options are not uncapped progressive support payments (which can and do amount to millions in a number of cases) and the bare minimum. Further, until you require a custodial parent to do anything but the bare minimum (cloth, feed, send to school) then you can't require more from a non-custodial parent. Many custodial parents through child support are able to extinguish their personal financial obligation to their children entirely AND end up with a significant financial windfall.

The logic of that argument would also agree with stop and frisk laws for black people because they are convicted per capita as a race of more crimes than white people. The state is not to treat anyone in a prejudicial manner. You can't give custodial parents as a class of people the benefit of the doubt while assuming the worst of non-custodial parents and nailing them to the wall. Think about it.

And I base that previous paragraph on your assumption that "dead beats" abandoning their children is true. The courts and lawmakers of the 80s-90s were fooled by many radical feminist scholars/writers when most of these laws were implemented. This has been recognized by legal scholars - Google "The Divorce Revolution Fraud/Debunked/Hoax etc." for an example. So the idea that men en masse were abandoning their children and ex-wives to a life of poverty has been greatly exagerrated. Unfortunately most of the current laws still operate under these false assumption.

Interesting. I recall it as a major issue from the people trying to figure out how to get people "off welfare" when welfare became demonized after the Reagan years. To that end, child support payments were a big fixture of the New Democrats, who were trying to solve social welfare problems without resorting to the now-unpopular welfare programs. One of the major sources of child poverty, as understood at the time, was due to a lack of enforcement for child support payments.