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Originally Posted by Ayla_SquareTurtle
Although I obviously do not think that people on welfare should be having more children, I don't see something like this ever working in reality.
Furthermore, it takes 2 people to create these children, and 2 people need to be held responsible. Deadbeat parents owe hundreds of millions of dollars in child support. Maybe if a little more effort was put into making people pay for their legal responsibilities, and making it extremely uncomfortable for them not to do so, the burden on the welfare system wouldn't be as heavy.
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This is a good point. A friend of mine is married and has three kids. Two are his and their oldest his wife had with her ex husband in a previous marriage. Her ex is a major deadbeat. The daughter that she has with him just turned 16 and only in this last year did he start paying child support. The only reason he did is because the courts finally caught up with him. He would work, then once they caught up with him and start to garnish his wages he would quit and live off friends and family for a while until he got another job. He is an electrician and can make pretty good money. He eventually got remarried and had two kids with the new wife then got divorced. She joined in and came after him and finally the court told him that if he didn't start paying they would take away his drivers license and any professional license and they would put him in jail. So it only took 15 years, but he is finally paying child support and he owes so much on back payments that she will probably never see it.
If fathers were held more accountable, there would be a lot less problems.