Sorry for spending so much time on the "deadbeat" topic, but I'm having severe trouble with it now. I have so much more material to post, I just underestimated how badly I'd be hurt by the deadbeat process.
Just to provide a little more detail, my support order is $40 less than my mortgage. A mortgage for a nice home in the best school district in the metro area if not the entire state. I also have as much as over 2 years held in advance (although 2/3 was taken by lawyers off the top) over my continuous objections.
Why should these lawyer leaches be allowed to take money specifically held for child support, my other creditors don't have this option. Although this is a typical political problem, take the money for one pretext (lottery for schools, SSI for seniors) and spend it on something else.
Some people have been attempting to make this slur more palatable by calling it "Deadbeat Dad and Mom". I don't know that it makes any difference to the reader, the image is still the same.
The reason a Deadbeat Declaration is a slur is
- It is made without due process
- Often it is made in error
- It is made without regard of ability to pay
- It feeds on an emotional plea for the child
- It is administered by a hypocritical system that takes money from the child
- It propagates an un-American Guilty until Proven Innocent mentality
- It tells you no facts, it is left to your imagination
- It disguises the true problems that lie in the system that takes money from the child
- The remedies applied actually make it even more unlikely that the child will be properly cared for
For all these reasons, let's treat "Deadbeat ..." as the hateful slur that it is and remove it from our language.
2 comments:
Allegations of child abuse and failure to pay child support are the only 2 acts in this country that guilty until proven innocent. And even if proven innocent you will still carry a stigma.
Its not fair.
Then the cutest thing is they take action, they attach your income tax returns, make a credit report and after you finally get them to recognize their error you have to get these undone.
And if it goes the next step you loose your driver's license and passport.
And forget a refund of extra funds siezed that's just a gift to your ex. Your child will never see it.
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