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Please stop the unfair punishment of good fathers. We need child support reform now!

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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Reginald H. from Atlanta, GA writes:
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    As fathers we try our best and when things fail in the relationship the mothers takes out their pain by punishing fathers with child support even if the father has done for the child all his life an then denied to see the child this is unfair an we should take a stance as fathers
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Shawn F. from Baltimore, MD writes:
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    Dad's should not be looked at as third party but looked at as partners in raising a child and we deserve to be treated fairly
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Robert C. from Cincinnati, OH writes:
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Danny S. from El Paso, TX writes:
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    Not all mom's are good....not all dad's are bad... Each case needs to be seen differently.... The children will appreciate it
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Hull, GA writes:
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    I totally agree. My husband and I have 4 children. The other child from another woman he does not see. She cannot hold a job. While me and my husband just went through a bad year financially real bad. Child support did not care took some of our tax return and half of our amended return all the while threating to suspend his license and take him to court. I was a single mom and had the mentality of have kids get child support so I know how they can think. Since then I gave my life to Jesus and met my husband in church. I see how they treat the fathers. Making him carry insurance on a kid who has medicad already!!?! Anyway I hope something can be done. I have bot recieved child support from my oldest two kids in 15 years. I get along fine.
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Taija R. from Philadelphia, PA writes:
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    They need to ban it period I don't even want to explain
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Lakeland, FL writes:
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    I pay 875 some months more to child support and my ex wife refuses to let me see my children the courts refuse to lower my child support and bc of child support im homeless living out of my 18 wheeler trying to make ends meet with a son and new wife this game is really old.
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Ralph D. from Chesapeake, VA signed.
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Clifton S. from Tarboro, NC writes:
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    I think child support should be stopped.it is the mothers responsibility as well why punish the fathers when the money is not being used for the up keep of the child.I know I have kids and I know my responsibility.I don't need the state to tell me to take care of my kids,I've been doing it all my life now me and my spouse didn't work out so now it's on child support I go.Its not fair to the fathers that the state is strictly for the women and not the men.Its 50/50.The state gives the ones who actually do for they kids the hardest time while the ones that don't go free.I can raise my kids by myself without any support from the mother because they are my and I helped to create them so GIVE ME the same opportunity that a woman gets.A WAY TO LIVE!!!!A farther has the same rights as the mother.EQUAL rights for both.STOP the child support
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Kerrville, TX writes:
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    i agree with the above their are fathers that have some handicap put have to live with their parents because the srpport is set so high some father has more then one child to take care of , and labor amt paid is terrible. but that should be looked out heres one guy trying to pay three surrport s and he is makeing 9.00 hr / yet he is surpose to live a noraml life theres not enought to pay rent or get truck or ins health or auto ,,,,,,or buy food hardly so has to depend on mom to help because the wife lieves because there surpoer or a home or her even if she is workinf her tail off , the courts go and put thei man on child surpport probation so if you miss a payment yoou go to jail well you sure to hell dont make money there so this whole chidsurport program stinks for all . need redonel i am a mother whos son has this very problem and il have grils to but the man doesnt have a chance in court the judges are very unfair to the men
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Houston, TX writes:
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    I agree a change must be done!
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Montclair, CA writes:
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    Think there is so much unfairness in this topic, and I've been on the wrong side of this more than once. All while being limited to when and where I can see my son, and spend a 2nd month worth of child support to travel and visit him at a place of her chosing.
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Someone from Poteet, TX writes:
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    This should happen because my fiance has a daughter from a previous girlfriend who by the way lives in Illinois while we live in Texas. Anyways, he has to pay for the whole trip all the way up there and back to pick her up for only summer vacation and then pay for the whole trip all the way up there and back to drop her off. Also, we have a 1 year old daughter as well and he pays 600 dollars a month for child support how are we supposed to live when they take so much money from him. Then his daughters is always telling her dad "I need this and i need that because mommy don't have money and she said you don't send her money for me to get what i need". When in reality she gets money every week for her, just lies to her. And I get she pays bills but she has a job her fiance has a job and she also gets a second child support for another child she had from another man. Its not right that the mother is spending all the child support money on herself when it's supposed to be spent on their child and lying to the child about it. And the mother calls talking all kinds of stuff if he misses 1 payment because he's changing jobs, when she don't even let him see his daughter but once a year. I dont think she has no right to complain when the money isn't for her its for the daughter. So, yes they should look at both incomes and family size, debt, etc.
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Tammy W. from Marion, OH signed.
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    Alexandria H. from Texas City, TX signed.
  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Ariel A. from Taylors, SC writes:
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    This needs to happen, so many women take advantage of child support for their own material needs, and still neglect to support the child in the process. My husband pays for the mother of his child to get her nails and hair done, but still lives with her parents and pays no bills for the child or herself. Time to come into the 21st century and stop punishing good fathers while rewarding bad mothers!
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  • Sep 21st, 2017
    Mackenson F. from Orlando, FL writes:
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    No more child support I agree with it... aba deye tout fanm kap bay neg child support banm vole...
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Joni K. from Somerset, KY writes:
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    I strongly agree with this.. my husband has been paying child support to an woman who has multiple children by multiple men, and child support is her only income. While my husband has to work his butt off to pay. We just had an child together that it makes it hard for him to have any money to spend on our child we have together because of child support that he is order to pay to his other children's mother. Not fair she doesn't work or nothing.
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Steve from Pensacola, FL writes:
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    Somewhat agree with you. Agree on the case by case, the women that I've seen use the current system to their advantage, and the drug testing. One other note that I would add is giving men that put forth the effort to work an pay support their license back. I know too many that fall behind and have their licence suspended. Keep driving to work, continue to do the best they can, get caught driving and fall deeper into a hole. I've never been on child support, I have a little girl and a lovely wife. Never lost my license. Ex- military. Just a perspective of friends who are really struggling due to it. At a minimal give them work hour permissions. Driving is my job now a HVACR technician and small business owner.
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Someone from Lake City, FL writes:
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    I'm on disability child support get more money than they give me so I'm about to be on the streets
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Jason B. from South Ozone Park, NY writes:
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    I wonder how many good fathers are out there if they have to be put on child support. This is a stupid petition, I am a stepfather, and I oppose. I'm currently dating a DACA woman who has two beautiful girls, fathered by a useless U.S Citizen who not only denied the kids and sought paternity test, he also refused to pay child support, hopped from jobs to jobs just to avoid paying child support. She did not put him on child support until he stopped caring for her kids. The woman that I'm dating bares two jobs, worked her*****off to support her two kids from A to Z, while he's was out there partying and fathered another kid with another woman. This guy did not give two crap about his own kids until I stepped into her life, till he figured out that now the women that he abandoned is about to be married to a high-net-worth individual. He became jealous. Now he wants to see his kids whenever he wants, threatening me with physical violence, and stalking my soon to be wife. And guess what I did? Hired two lawyers, threw his*****in jail, increased his child support obligations and made sure he pays his 25k arrears. I firmly believe that the Congress should enforce stricter child support policy, increase penalties and jail time. Not only will this reduces child support cases, and it will make sure these men face the consequence they deserved. Fathering a child and then walk away is no different than death sentence or murder for the child.
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Someone from Chattanooga, TN writes:
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    A man shouldnt go to jail if he in his children life and trying to be dere point blank they need to come up with something else..
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Charlotte B. from Bowdon, GA signed.
  • Sep 20th, 2017
    Stacey G. from Monroe, LA writes:
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    I am a woman and I believe child support should be split up if one puts the other on child support both should be paid because we have the choice to lay and make babies with no consequences behind this as women.. There is to may women conceptions available to protect us from making unplanned babies by men we chose to lay with unprotected. It takes 2 people to make a baby and if its not rape or report as rape then women made the choice to have unprotected sex it's not just the men fault. There are dead beat women just as there are dead beat men but some men want to be involved with there children and some women want to stop them just because the man had moved on with another relationship and the same for some men as well,there becomes jealous and a lot of bitterness between the two and women tend to use the kids and child support on Good men as well as bad when it's not about them its the children who are incidence not the mother or father..I wish this could be reevaluated and reconsidered under the child support Guidelines and some women just have babies to get state assistance or child support and do not even take care of the kids with the money.. I definitely believe it should be if one pays we both pay and I've been a single parent with 3 kids raised and they grew up Great with me providing and if the father did or didn't it was my choice to make him my child's father not his. My body,My consent,My baby and I choose not to use protection and not yo mention some women not only have one baby by the same dead beat man so why do they continuously have more babies by this same dead beat man..I strongly believe something had to be done to help good fathers regardly because its nor fair to the children or fathers who do help and provide and suffer consequences under the law but why allow dead mom's to continue to lay up and keep having babies by the same men or different ones just to get child support to club and party and kids still goes without make women take ownership as well its a two way deal one pays they both pay and they will stop bringing babies into the society and living off the state and hardworking people who deserve better treatment and better laws for child support rules for both again not just men. It's our responsibility to make better decisions and stop trying to beat the system and hurt the father's or mother's when it's clear as day some women are over rated because their is no consequences behind making babies after babies just have and men forced to pay child support with no say,no visitation just walking on egg shells.please review
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  • Sep 20th, 2017
    MIKE B. from Knightdale, NC signed.