The 'Dead Beat' Fathers Myth

	posted by Adam on Thursday May 22, @10:15AM from the News dept.
	masculinism writes "G'Day from Sydney Australia. How many times have we all had to endure the verbal assaults of 'dead beat fathers'? I went and looked at the facts and lifted this comment under Section 2.2 Of the Australian Child Support Agancy website. Here is the link "only 6 per cent of children did not have reasonable maintenance action requirements met on their behalf and, in many cases, this can be a temporary situation." Now correct me if I am wrong wouldn't this indicate that the vast and OVERWHELMING!!!! majority of fathers pay their child support IN FULL. Why then are there never ending media stories on 'dead beat fathers' these fathers represent a very small fraction of fathers, almost to the point of insignificance. Masculinism"

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More deadbeat moms as a %age of female NCPs, too (Score:1) by mcc99 on Friday May 23, @09:55AM EST (#1) (User #907 Info) http://fact.on.ca/news/news0208/fx020809.htm

So Who Made It The State's Business? (Score:2) by Luek on Friday May 23, @06:26PM EST (#2) (User #358 Info) I still don't understand just why the state starts to micro-manage people's lives after a divorce in the area of child support. The state can't (yet) say who can marry or who can't marry. Nor is the state concerned about the standard of living a child has in an intact marriage. Setting the standard of living is the prerogative of the parents. If the state just has to set a standard then that standard should only be the amount the state itself pays to keep a child in foster care. No higher! Anything else is meddlesome tyranny by bastards in black sheets.

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