Monday, February 4, 2013

Child Support


Support your children.  Don’t hide assets and lie.  It’s not the child’s fault that the relationship didn’t work out.  It's not the child's fault if you didn't want a child - and, really, do you want to give your own child a complex and make them feel unloved and unwanted?  Maybe he is unloved and unwanted - but only an asshole would foist that upon a child.

Most "reasons" that people give for not wanting to pay child support are actually justifications.  It's a means of wanting to feel good about yourself for being an asshole.  Don't give yourself license to be an asshole.  Instead, try doing the right thing.  Didn't want a child?  Do you know how it happens?  Did you wear a condom?  If not, shut the hell up and support your child.  If so, well, shit happens in life.  Life sucks.  Deal with it.  If you absolutely, 100% cannot and will not support a child, don't have sex.  Priests, geeks, and the super religious do it all the time.  Don't want to be associated with unwashed masses playing video games in their mother's basements?  Tough shit.  These are your options.  Either accept the potential consequences of your actions like a grown adult, or do every possible thing in your power (legally) to ensure that those consequences do not come about.  Condoms are not 100% effective.  Maybe look into a vasectomy.  It actually sounds like you might be doing the world a favor by not reproducing.

Maybe you have other children to support?  How is that your child's fault?  Do you really want to call a child and say, "Well, I could have afforded to buy you food and clothing, but I decided to marry another lady and I think the kids I had with her are more worthy of being allowed to eat than you are."  (If you really do want to say that, then you are in the wrong place, because you are way more of an asshole than I can help.)

Say you did everything you possibly could to avoid having a child.  Say you stepped up and did the right thing.  Say the other parent is completely insane/a terrible person and does not deserve your money.  It doesn't matter.  It's not your child's fault that you entered into a relationship with a psychopath before he was born.  Support your child.  Get to know future sexual partners better before having sex with them.  We all make mistakes.  Accept responsibility for them.

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