F&F: Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Are Actively Harmful to the Wellbeing of Children

Article here. Excerpt:

'I believe that that Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines require extensive revisions because they are actively harmful to the wellbeing of children.

Best Interests of Children
Life teaches us that almost any beneficial factor is beneficial in moderation; and that too much or too little are usually harmful. It is intuitively obvious why too little child support is harmful to the wellbeing of children. It ought to be intuitively obvious that too much court-ordered child support is also harmful to children, but so little thought has been devoted to this issue by decision-makers that it is often lost.

For middle income and high income families, the current Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines produce child support orders that are far too high by any reasonable measure. They constitute a windfall to the recipient. In low income cases, the child support orders are by no means a windfall, since they are generally less than it costs to raise a child; but they are high enough to constitute a major burden for the payor, often pushing him into deep poverty.'