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American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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Bruce Eden, Director of Dads Against Discrimination stated, “The longer the state engages in social engineering of families, it delays the day that the state is out of the killing business of families. Death is a product of state Family Courts and its judges and attorneys. They view it as the cost of doing business in the ever expanding fraud business model that is styled as family court.”
Finally, America should suck in its pride and catch up and learn from the rest of the world. The American Child Support system has to accept that government intervention in family affairs is not always the answer, it’s sometimes the problem.
Authors Irwin Garfinkel and Annemette Sorenson stated, “The United States fosters parental irresponsibility, is inequitable, exacerbates already poor family relations, and impoverishes single parents and their children. It would be difficult to imagine a more dysfunctional system.”
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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It is a doubt that American Child Support will be reformed any time soon. Editorials urging Child Support reform have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Charleston Post And Courier and in a report by National Public Radio, yet nothing has materialized.
The American Child Support System needs to rid itself of misandry embedded within its foundation by erasing the crutch called the Deadbeat Dad myth and upgrade its system to match contemporary American gender reality. It absolutely has to stop criminalizing innocent poor fathers and cease violating their fundamental U.S. constitutional and human rights.
More importantly, it should stop the corruption and fraud which persists in its institutional and procedural behavior of profiting from the misery of human suffering, while augmenting the separation of families, to its own profit.
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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Even in Africa, in Botswana and Lethoso, if the mother is financially stable, there’s no need for the government to enforce Child Support payments and there is a maximum cap on the amount of Child Support collected.
Unlike in America, where even the U.S. President Donald Trump pays $300,000 a year, former baseball star Alex Rodriguez $115,000 a month, and actor Eddie Murphy $51,000 monthly. Such money has better use for the public than to spoil any child like this.
In Latin American nations like Chile, the child support system is also fairer. The amount is based on necessities only and prosecutions for arrears are relatively low, according to John Cobin of EscapeAmericaNow. Personal assets of a father are not at risk of being liquated to support a child. Debtors’ prisons are a practically moot concept and imprisonment for severe arrears may be fifteen days as opposed to a year or more in the United States.
America has a lot of catching up to do. It has a problem understanding money isn’t everything and governments sometimes create more ills than good.
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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But it isn’t just Europe that puts Americans and the United States to shame. Developing nations, despite being classified as worse on women’s and human rights, have better systems.
In Jordan and Iraq for example, the parent with a higher income must foot the majority of costs for raising the child. If a spouse remarries, child support obligations for the opposing parent simply end.
Also, there is a 50/50 shared custody arrangement between mother and father divided by early and adolescent years of the child’s development, with an option of the child choosing which parent to remain with. In Israel, gender equality awareness has come to a discussion unlike in America.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked recently proposed a bill in the Israel Kenesset wherein Child Support would be based on both parents’ incomes, rather than gender. Kulanu MK Merav Ben Ari proposed a bill to scratch child support entirely and just enforce joint custody.
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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In Sweden, a 50/50 arrangement entails no child support. Sweden has one of the highest shared parenting rates in the world. Research has proven shared parenting is best financially and psychologically for both parents and children. https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/child-development/share-physical-custody-stress/ While in America, only 17 percent of custody cases involve shared parenting. https://www.deseret.com/2016/2/5/20581666/what-shared-parenting-is-and-how-it-can-affect-kids-after-divorce#sad-child-on-a-swing-inbetween-her-divorced-parents-holding-her-separatedly
While the average monthly Child Support payment in America is $465.00. https://www.wevorce.com/blog/child-support-facts-and-figures/ In European nations as Sweden, it is as low as $137. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719085154/http://www.forsakringskassan.se/privatpers/foralder/separerar/underhallsbidrag/ In addition, most European nations also base Child Support more on the incomes of each parent, rather than time spent with the child or who possesses custody, as in America. http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/child-support-and-parenting-time-orders.aspx
But perhaps what is the most effective and humane in the European system is an emphasis on pre-government intervention or what are termed cooperation-dialogue sessions. These sessions entail the spouses conversing on custody and support arrangements with a mediator. For example, in Sweden, according to the ChildandFamilyblog, “Only 2% of custody arrangements in Sweden are imposed by a judge.” https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/child-development/share-physical-custody-stress/
These sessions are also free of charge for the indigent whereas in America, the indigent won’t even be granted an attorney. In addition, only after several sessions and no agreement, do lawyers and the courts become involved. https://www.juristjouren.se/vardnad-och-underhall_kopia.html
In summary, the European system eliminates the inhumanity, gender inequality, and inefficiency created from the American Child Support system. Both parents share custody and pay less, mothers get paid more, and criminalizing the indigent doesn’t occur.
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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A preponderance of contemporary comparative analyses of Child Support systems worldwide usually emphasize the heuristic of how much is collected and administered as a successful system. However, there is more to that heuristic. Successful Child Support systems are humane, replicate an environment prior divorce while collecting money efficiently, and eliminate the criminalization of the indigent. Journalist Bryce Covert in ThinkProgress states, “American fathers have the highest obligations among 14 of the richest countries, even if they are poor or unemployed (in eight countries, an unemployed father doesn’t owe anything). The U.S. is one of four that doesn’t exempt some portion of the noncustodial parent’s income for basic living expenses. Only five countries are so extreme as to jail fathers who don’t pay.” In addition to European nations such as Austria and Finland not imprisoning for Child Support, Australia also doesn’t
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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The most compelling evidence however, exposing the corruption and fraud of the Child Support system, is revealed by Divorce Corp Director, Joseph Sorge. His research focused on the actual costs of raising a child in comparison to what state governments are demanding. He revealed that the amount the State demands, is double to quadruple the actual costs of raising a child.
SouthFloridaCorruption concurs with Joseph Sorge’s findings and states,“Child support is actually child extortion and alimony. It is often four to five times the actual cost of raising a child.”
Stephen Baskerville, a former member of Virginia’s Advisory Child Support Review Panel, states in the Washington Examiner that Child Support is, “Simply government-organized thievery.”
William S.Comanor in, “The Law and Economics of Child support Payments,” with the help of scholars, describes the Child Support system as, “An obvious sham and disaster…the most onerous form of debt collection practiced in the United States.”
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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Restraining orders, often urged on by lawyers as a legal tactic, are also administered upon the father prior a Child Support hearing, preventing the father from any contact with the children or the mother. Therefore, there’s little chance for spouses to arrive to any mutual agreement, prior government or legal interference. States and lawyers don’t profit if they’re not part of the formula.
Such restraining orders also need no evidence to obtain and mothers are never punished for lying.
For example, the famous T.V. host David Lettermen had a restraining order upon him by a New Mexico woman, as his accuser claimed he spoke to her in code on his TV appearances. In West Virginia alone, 81 percent of restraining orders by females against males were discovered to be false. None of the petitioners were punished.
Attorney Christine Sullivan writes in the Valley Patriot that, “The restraining order is often times used as a legal tactic to gain an advantage in child custody proceedings. It is a page out of the dirty lawyer’s handbook.”
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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“If a man goes out and gets DNA testing that says it’s not his child, but it’s after four years, he’s screwed,” says a Texas assistant attorney general. “You’ve got 17-year-old kids signing these things [Child Support Agreements], and they don’t even know what they’re doing.” FugitiveNation states, “If the father had a vasectomy that left him with a zero sperm count prior to the birth of the child, this evidence is considered irrelevant.” Occasionally, the Child Support representative may also lie about DNA paternity results to quickly secure a signature. In other cases, if the indigent father misses a single court proceeding, it results in an automatic Child Support award for the mother. The National Parents Organization states, “Where there’s money to be had – big money – there’s bound to be corruption…So when it comes to establishing child support, state attorney generals stoop to just about anything to make sure some adult male gets identified as the child’s father. To them it really doesn’t matter if it’s the right guy or not.”
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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It’s also the shrewd Machiavellian nature in which the Child Support system operates with akin honor and integrity as an amalgamation between Charles Ponzi and San Francisco’s Sally Stanford.
Indigent fathers are regularly without legal representation and callously rushed through a conveyor-belt of signing agreements, some still in a fragile psychological state from divorce or separation. No tests are administered to establish if fathers are mentally fit.
In addition, state paternity DNA tests are not 100 percent trustworthy. For example, a Canadian man, Andre Cherky, discovered his state administered DNA test painting him a biological father, was wrong after a second test.
Sometimes DNA tests are not administered at all. Currently, 30 percent of Child Support is paid by fathers whose DNA tests prove they are not the fathers.
In Dallas, Texas, the state government disregarded DNA results proving a wife cheated on her husband. Then, the court sanctioned the results to be sealed from the public, while the Child Support order remained enforced on the father.
American Child Support: Broken, Corrupt, Misandrist, and Inhumane
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