30 children By 11 Different Women; Wants Help with Child Support

Nothing can be done about it. Any action taken against this man by the government would set a huge precedent.

 

Maybe we need to set a precident. Here is a guy going around populating the earth with no responsibilities of ever supporting them. What do we do, just turn our back and keep paying to support his off springs? A little jail time would make him think twice. A longer jail time might make him agree to getting fixed.

 

I was referring more to welfare mothers who keep having kids.

 

This is a tough one for me as I'm not real big on further filling our jails with non-violent criminals if we can come up with a better solution. It does seem his actions should be considered criminal, some form of child-abuse, but I'm not sure what the charge would be. Jailing him just puts further burdens on the taxpayers. It seems some form of indentured servanthood might be an appropriate course of action, but that is no longer legal and would be frowned upon. I am also retiscent to see kids going hungry because of horrible parents. Certainly an incentive for him to get snipped in exchanged for a moderated sentence.

It seems there is a sub-culture in our country that encourages and applauds this kind of behavior. Perhaps we should bring back implements that could make this more of a disgrace than a badge of honor:

 

The government has always taken action over such matters. They can take the child support right out of his paycheck or throw him in jail till all of the back child support is paid. Out of these options I think sterilization would be the kinder action to take. I agree that it can not be forced but maybe an agreement such as forgiving x amount of child support owed if he gets himself snipped would be the smart thing to offer for everyone's wallets.

 

Supporting 30 kids puts a heck of a burden on the tax payer too.

 

Stockades and his only source of food or water should be from his children, should they choose to actually provide it. Perhaps they can agree to match the $1.69/ month in provisions he was lavishing on them.

 

Absolutely. This idiot is a cancerous tumor to society. But you throw him in jail and he no longer has a minimum wage job and even the minimul child-support stops while we pay the added cost of imprisoning him ($25500 to $26000 per year). That's why I look for, when possible, more creative ways to deal with problems such as this. We agree that an incentive for those like him to get snipped would be beneficial to everyone.

 

That sounds completely reasonable. Seems like for special cases like this we never should have gotten rid of them.

 

Just unions.

 

I don't think it's about poverty alone but also education and culture or religion. For example Moldova is one of the poorest nations in the world and they have a below replacement birth rate that is one of the lowest in the world. Though you could say this is the exception rather than the rule if you look at why it could be the exception you might see some potential reasons. As they were once part of the Soviet Union they are probably less religious and had better education than nations who are richer but have significantly higher birth rates. These could be factors to consider. The links below provide GDP per captia and fertility rate statistics. It's interesting to look through.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publica...ova&countryCode=md&regionCode=eur&rank=179#md

https://www.cia.gov/library/publica...ova&countryCode=md&regionCode=eur&rank=165#md

 

And I personally have no problem whatsoever with a couple having a bunch of kids. I do have a big problem with a person having kids all over the place and being unable to provide them with a father-figure or the necessary financial support.

 

I agree that not being able to support the kids is the larger issue in this case but was pointing out that the collation between poverty and large families may not be correct independent of other factors such as education and culture or religion.

 

I think the kids won't miss that $1.69 a week in child support divided between those 30 kids. But jail time just might make this guy realize he can't keep going out and populating the earth and expect others to support them. I hate to think if we do nothing, we may have another 30 to support in the not to distant future.