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Originally Posted by GatorB
I'm not bitter. I was pissed at the insuation that only women raise their kids and all deadbeat parents are men. I'm also pissed that people insinuate if a guy doesn't give a certain amount of child support he is somehow a bad father. My friend has 3 kids and pay $450 a month in child support. To some that's not enough. Well he makes $7 an hour. How is supposed to live? In order for a parent to support a child they need to work which means they need a place to live and they have to eat and clothe themselves have a vehicle. That's shit isn't free. It's amazing if kids are livng poor and mom doesn't work and get welfare and ffodstamps it's somehow DADs fault. It's 2006 mom can get a job.
Don't see me at the welfare office. I also have private health insurance for my kid thru Blue Cross which I pay $96 a month for and I get $166.66 taken out of my checking account every month to go into my son's education IRA. I get that ammount taken out because it's the max you can put into an education IRA( $2000 a year ). Not all of us dad deadbeats and I hate the insinuation.
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$7 an hour is not enough to take care of himself let alone 3 kids. Sorry man, but he needs to get a 2nd and possibly 3rd job in order to do just that.
Wouldn't he have to somehow come up with that money if they were living with him? Goes back to my point...that you can bitch all you want about having to pay only $450 a month when it would be much more if they were living with him.
Of course that $450 would be applied to their food costs, clothing costs, housing costs, etc..etc..etc...but then there are the more subtle costs that I know you experience that are "unexpcted."