Arguing About Unemployment and Child Support
Looking at the current unemployment rate, some want to argue the unemployment rate peaked at 10.8% in 1982. Others point out the steep decline in employment to be the worst drop since 1949. The February decline is the largest decline since 1975. February also marks a 14 month streak of job losses, the third worst since 1939. Job losses have occurred in two-thirds of the economy. Those that are unemployed know or will soon know the difficulty that they face.
The reality is that the intensive job losses have created an economic trend that will create downward pressure for quite some time. The vicious cycle of corporate layoffs, combined with lower demand for all the products that business must sell to keep afloat, creates more layoffs. The unemployment scene is a self-fulfilling prophecy where business and profits are concerned.
What is the government doing about unemployment? The federal government continues to extend unemployment benefits as the only real-time magic bullet in their arsenal. President Obama knows well the debacle that tens of millions of non-custodial parents face, but so far, has elected to do nothing in the name of politics. He remembers the neglect of his own father's support like so many Americans do. He is grateful for having a caring grandmother to raise him, but missing his father sticks in his craw. Meanwhile, the Bradley Law is sanctioned as a legitimate fair-minded application of the Constitution based on legal precedence, the growth and collective enlightenment of the nation's legal society.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist or physicist to determine that with unemployment being what it is, the United States is looking at a protracted recession for intermediate term. As long as the corporate bloodletting continues, there is nowhere to hide. We have done this to ourselves by being dependent on the corporate life for our income. That is where most of the fallout resides. Small business and entrepreneurs hang tough while corporations lay off in record numbers to maintain the corporate comfort level. The corporate life of dependence is what the government wants so that it can keep an eye on your money and earnings. The truly sad fact is that government statistics don't cover the true unemployment rate, which is closer to 18%.
The media says that the worse is yet to come. Perhaps you have decided to lower your life expectations for a time. That would be wise. In the end, we will collectively move on with life, but this will be much harder for the non-custodial parent without a job or a place to lay his head as the Bradley Amendment and child support arrears follow him endlessly. The non-custodial parent is slave to a government system of fear and oppression, bolstered by special interests, retaliatory behavior and self-righteous anger.
In the meantime, multitudes are holding onto hope of a better tomorrow despite the deflation of the dollar and current economic decline. The American Dream isn't about a house with a white picket fence, cars and kids. The American Dream is collective vision of the nation's combined success. America has forgotten that. The nation is strongest when we stand together. Each of us must decide whether we can forgive the system, and wrongs against us including the individuals that have so abused the nation for their own personal interest and profit. We have to decide that as a nation that we will no longer engage in usury on either side. Can we forgive and forget? Bitterness is an exceedingly difficult animal to deal with.
We must learn to be practical as a nation once again. The American Dream has been robbed from tens of millions in the righteous name of children by oppressive and ignorant government. Those of us that have some visible means of support must ask ourselves: What have I done today to help fellow Americans that are down on their luck? What have I done to help a non-custodial parent lately?
Sources:
Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor: Table A-12 Alternative measures of labor underutilization, http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
Published by E. Manning
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8 Comments
Post a CommentI don't believe this B.S.. most of you man bashers are a real prize. I have seen alot of your type in action and would not even eat your food because of the filthy and unsanitary conditions you live in!
this is all due to your outright laziness, Dirty stinky laundry piled high for weeks,trash piled high on the floor,dirty dishes that are only done for just for what is needed. you are just another bad example on how to not to raise your children and as (the other parent) not all men have total disregard for the well being for there children,and usually are more than willing to pay for child support as long as it is for the kids and not you and your lazy boyfriends drinking, drugging and smoking habit. so before you go throwing stones get off your hing horse and take a closer look at what is really taking place. and just remember it takes two to make a baby! as for the governance how often does the state check to see how the money you receive is being spent? my guess is probab
Most man is DOGS. want to make kids and not take the responsibility. Other man, make mistake with woman and have a child. and most of them dont run away from there obligation. but if that obligation become a problem for a man to not even survive because Half of his earning goes to your Child Support, thats the problem, most woman use that money to pay for this own SHIT. not the kids.
Thats all i have to say..
I'm sick of all the non sense about dead beat dads... what about dead beat moms. My son lost his job; filed for unemployment; was paying his child support; never gets to see his kids because of some excuse from the mom. He's been very depressed, was even put in the hospital for it.. close to suicide. I have been helping him with expenses; he can't afford rent, nor food and his pride was keeping him from filing for food stamps. He'll be getting his unemployment, but I'm afraid to tell him, he'll probably get not one dime of it. It's not that he don't want to pay, it's how much the state takes away from him that he's left to not live on. Fair is fair. The mother hardly works, goes from one boy friend to another, lives with one now that don't even work. This mother has 4 kids in all, with only one belonging to my son. However, the man the mother is living with doesn't work and the child support she gets is only from my son. So don't tell me that ALL moms are having a hard time. T
I agree with you about hate mail from the ignorant (read: scared to death something will change). It's already changed, beginning with financial and insurance schemes destined to bring us right here, right now. If folks would just step back and see that the current method of funding state child support agences will not work during sustained periods of recession/massive unemployment (around 20% in my book). What are we going to do? Throw people into jail because, in effect, they lost their jobs? I can imagine hearing custodial parents, feeling once again "wronged," clucking with righteous judgment at those caught up in the unemployment avalanche, without taking one nanosecond to ponder what will happen to the entire system if nothing changes. Well, on the "bright" side (if you're a fascist, that is), our nation will have a ready-to-go labor force of millions in peonage. Even legislatives types who cater to women and minority votes will probably concede that even though 85% or mor
This subject always receives hate mail from the ignorant. The problem is not child support, but rather the fact that federal law (the Bradley Amendment) dictates that child support is no longer based on income. If you lose your job, the "non-custodial" parent is largely sunk with little hope of getting a reduced amount per real income as the bills continue to pile in with little hope to deal with the onslaught. While all this drama is happening the amount of support continues to proliferate endlessly despite the lack of income or lowered income. That is the issue in the United States, an entirely wrong-headed approach to support for children. This is not about crime and punishment, but about an unjust and unconstitutional system. Those are the facts and the reality has little to do with feelings, but what is right based on even world standards. The U.S. violates standards that even the U.N. considers as human rights. Even worse, Americans have developed an entitlement attitude. You kno
i can see both sides of the fence. my husband is a wonderful father to both of his children and have went out of his way to go above and beyond to assist in the upbringing and support of his child. His worthless babymama abuses the system and filed child support on him when she found out that he was getting married. now he has gotten laid off and child support is taking 259 out of his 347 check. we are currently in the process of going through support modification. her spiteful is causing a great deal of stress and is a clear example of abuse of the system. and b4 ANY of you single mother decide to lash out against this article or my comment, keep in mind that this is a woman who did not finish HS just received her GED at the age of 27, lost all of her retail jobs due to her coming into work high or late, is living at her parents home and already had ACS involved due to the fact that she can't get her son to school and when she does he's always late( and they live 4 blocks from the
What about the financial obligation of the supporting parent? It doesn't stop simply because you lost your job! We still have to continue supporting YOUR child regardless if you lost your job or not. It irritates me that you make such brash statements and selfish behavior thinking only of yourself. The custodial parent doesn't have a choice of weather they will support their child from day to day.. it is an OBLIGATION that has to be done EVERY day regardless of circumstances.. we have to pick ourselves up by the bootstraps and make sure our children are taken care of properly EVERY single day! So you lost your job and now your child can live with NOTHING? poor you?? Stop thinking only of your only selfish needs and wants and START thinking of your innocent children! Sick to death of hearing dead beat dads whine about their needs and rights.. and not once mentioning THEIR children in the equation. I wonder if you would like your children to read this statement when they are old enough t
I'm sorry, where is the fatherly concern for the effects of this recession on your KIDS?
Yes, we all still have bills to pay.
We all have mouths to feed. As long as YOU can eat, who cares about the kids?
Even custodial parents are struggling, perhaps even more so. Custodial parents can't really change much about their everyday expenses. Using public transportation, cutting back on clothing, shoes and other services, not to mention moving into smaller, more affordable housing for just one adult is a lot easier to do than for anyone with kids.
My husband's income dropped more than 50% nine months ago. How much of his child support did/do we still pay? 100%. Child support is the first thing paid every month. We have never considered that as OUR money!
Stop thinking of this obligation as punishment for your failed marriage, and as something your kids deserve!