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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here:  estimate the court ordered child support payments a young man working FULL TIME at minimum wage ($8.50/hour for a job a high school drop out woudl be lucky to get in this economy) would be ordered to pay:

http://www.alllaw.com/calculators/childsupport/DC/

$255/month

If he were working part time after school, and the mom were, too -- he'd be expected to contribute just $100 a month.
[/quote]In that scenario the family will be living off welfare
i.e. subsidised housing, vouchers for day care
But if there is a way, welfare checks will stop because of the family support.
Law is on the side of the child. A baby must get the bare bones needed for survival. That means at least $1000 per month for day care, $300 for formula, medical expenses etc
Money must come from somewhere
A rich kid will have his father pay for his college, that means he can take out another $15K per year as school loans to support his kid
Why are you so opposed to the father being made to bear his share of the costs?[/quote]

Why do you think I am opposed to a baby being supported by its parents???  I am not.

I am simply opposed to your "pie in the sky" thinking.  That just because you would like the young man to earn $300 for formula, $100 for diapers, $500 for daycare, $$ for health insurance.... etc.... doesn't mean, at minimum wage, he will earn anything like that.   And can't be ordered to pay anything like what you seem to think he'll be ordered to pay!    Not when he is working a minimum wage job!!

And I most certainly hope that people advising young women to continue with their pregnancies aren't painting as rosy a picture, as you seem intent on doing here, as to what they can expect to be ordered in the way of child support.   I wonder, does that happen, at the Crisis Pregnancy centers run by anti-abortion advocates?   Do people promise young women that they WILL be supported, that they can do this, that there will be aid from loving people and by public assistance, and that the families of the young men involved will be required to send $1000 each month, even if the fathers are 18 years old, and barely working a minimum wage job?

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