Anyone out there sick of Deadbeat Dads?

@lilybug (21107)
United States
September 20, 2007 4:47pm CST
I sure am. I have not one, but TWO of them in my life. Or not in it I should say. My 7 1/2 year old son's dad owes me $4003.72 as of this morning. He does not keep a job very long at a time. It seems like every time the state starts taking money out of his check he quits or gets fired from a job. He has only seen his son 2 times in the last 13 months. He calls me to complain about his life and how he is broke and his wife is a witch, but does not want to talk to his son and MAGICALLY has to get off the phone when you bring up money. He is so broke that is why he and his wife have Brand New cars! He has 5 kids, and does not support any of them. I don't understand how his wife would want to be with someone who is a deadbeat dad. What is wrong with these women? My almost 8 month old daughter's dad has seen her 3 times, and has not given me a penny. The last time I talked to him was almost a month ago when he called me to yell at me for sending a police officer to serve him with paternity paper, so that I can start collecting child support. He did not get served because they do not have a current address for him. They went to his mom;s house to serve him because that is where he is getting his mail sent. His mom just told them he does not live here and did not give them any information. I don't know his address either,or I would give it to them. I just had to rant! Anyone else having a problem with deadbeat dads or deadbeat moms for those guys with custody?
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@lightningMD (5931)
• United States
20 Sep 07
My ex owes mr over 29,000 dollars. He has not seen his kids in 25 years. We have custody of my husbands 9 year old daughter. Her mom has not paid one cent. She has only seen her 4 times in the 15 months. Yet her father thinks she was a great parent and cant figure out why the court ordered supervised visitation only. Somr people should be forced into sterilization so they cant keep having children they dont take care of.
• United States
20 Sep 07
My mother raised my brother and I without any help from our deadbeat dads! I watched her through my whole life sacrafice herself just to feed us! I can't stand my father now, and now that I have a child of my own I hate dad's who are no good for nothing.... and what is sad is that most men out there are deadbeat!! It's hard to find a good guy now a days!
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@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
21 Sep 07
I am so sorry you have to deal with all of that, I would be so upset also
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• United States
21 Sep 07
I agree with you 100%! The worst part is not just the deadbeat dads, but the employers that don't send the support payments out when they are suppose to, and when you confront them they say oh sorry I have been so busy I forgot to mail it, and I will get it right out and you still don't get it for another 2 - 3 weeks. The other thing I can't stand is child support its self and the reason I say this is because sometimes they get payments more than what they should pay and they don't mail it all to you instead they only send you a small payment instead, not even enough to pay your bills. When you call child support and tell them you didn't get your payment they tell you they have 20 days to submit a letter to the employer, and you try to explain you don't have 20 days to wait, and they just don't care.
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@Zhukov (106)
• Norway
21 Sep 07
Dosent sound good, buuuuut you are the one to blame for getting in this situation arent you? you should have learned this before getting a kid you know.