Dead beat parents????

For sure it should be enforced more. Here in Illinois if a parent owes back child support and is not paying the state will garnish that person's wages to pay for the child support. It sounds like you might need to get yourself a good lawyer who will be able to make sure your child gets what she deserves.

hi Java I too live in the US in Ca and I hear that a lot from my friends here too. but to me if they arrest the father how can he make money to pay the back child support if he is stuck in prison, that would punish him sure, but you need the money a lot more than you want him punished I would hope. two years, thats dreadful, if he stuck around long enough to make a baby he h as to support that child. sure child support should be enforced a lot more than it is but jailing cannot help, he has to have money to pay money, and working I wou ld think would be the only way of getting the needed money.

depends on the circumstance. i know a guy who has 3 jobs and 8 kids he's paying for,and as such has to rotate payments though he's supposed to pay every child every month (and gets jailed every now and then because of it). but if they're not paying at all,definetly. they were part responsible for creating that child and should man up.

no one is going to like me for this one...and i am a single mother at that. i am a survivor of domestic violence and had to leave him to save me and my son's life. he left the state after trying to hurt himself and us when I wouldn't come back to him. we hadn't seen him since. i don't have a child support order, and he hasn't done anything to help out or contact his son. this is fine with me. i know it is probably not with my son, but he just doesn't see him as the monster i see him as. he is his dad no matter how bad my son saw he do things and hurt us. i understand that. i am just glad he was away. i couldn't be a healthy mom being with him. i don't want anything from him. i know he has a responsibility to his kids. that's on him. now, some people would say that he more than deserves to pay. probably so. what about the guys who's only crime is break up with the mom, or marriage not working out. the child support laws are already strict. parents under those orders can't do ALOT in their lives with it on them...get federal aid. some states i think take away drives licenses. so, no we should have all hundreds of thousands of men (or women) in jail for not being together with someone? what would they ever be able to do to help their kids in jail. when they come out, they will be felons and will be able to do less. makes no sense other than to have a means for one parent to punish the other parent and using the state to do it. the child support thing is waaay taken out of control. it should be revised, so that we are not taxing people for not being in a relationship...whew! true what they say, it's cheaper to keep em.

Oh don't even get me started...same situation here...he told me in court that I'd never see a penny of it-because I divorced him for cheating. Okay so 5 years go by-it racks up...they do absolutely nothing til 8 months ago..He was an absconder fugitive for years..Then suddently-they found him, he went to court, said he'd lost his job (oh the poor thing) so they let him off once again... They just put a warrant (a few months ago) for his arrest out so he started paying some money only to get off that and another probation and warrant for his arrest-once they clear that-which they're doing now.. he'll stop paying again. I didn't know if you were in trouble with the law and paid child support-you could get out of the charges?! Argh...so he's out there having other kids since then..2 since that time. I'm telling you it's aggravating as heck. They just slap his hand and feel sorry for him. Meanwhile, I have to take care of my kids no matter what hits me..I lost some income and was struggling-almost lost my car...but they didn't feel sorry for me. I don't know what they can do-but they need to do something..It's sure in favor of the parent leaving their child and having more.