Quote: (12-08-2013 05:33 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Quote:randomForest Wrote:
At least this way, the gov't isn't getting a cut and from the guy's perspective he can probably be sure that more of his cash is going directly to his son and not the lawyers and state social workers.
That's kind of a flimsy rationalization. This mother doesn't sound like she's going to spend any of that money on their son. But still, you have a point.
It wasn't my intention to "rationalize" or excuse what this woman is doing. I was just noting that the charging fathers to see their children is basically what the state-sanctioned child support model of the nuclear family is already doing. It's just that this woman is deciding to do her own dirty work rather than having the state act as her pimp, which has the benefit of preventing the state from getting a cut of the cash the father is sending.
And I do think that a good portion of the money will be spent on the kid--after all, the kid won't starve, etc. But whatever the case, she deserves to burn in hell.