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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its wonderful and should have been done many years ago.   The elimination of child support would only be if the women had equal salaries.[/quote]

+1. Even now when there is 50/50 custody child support is only awarded when the difference in salary is enough to warrant it, and things like health insurance, childcare, and uncovered medical are all split proportionally based on income (when salaries are equal, each parent pays 50%).

Granted, [b]I tend to laugh a little when men (particularly white men) complain about the laws, because the laws were written, implemented, and interpreted in the courts by white men.They weren't written and passed to protect women or children, they were written by men, to further their interests. Child support wasn't enforceable until fairly recently either (the ability to track the location of someone ordered to pay came with the implementation of technology over the past 20 years or so), and now that it's enforceable I find it funny that men suddenly actually want responsibility for their children.[/b] [/quote]

You realize that the [b]men currently complaining are not the same men who wrote the laws[/b], right? And, unless they are on their second set of children, they are also [b]not the same men who often got away with skipping out on child support[/b] until a couple of decades ago?[/quote]

They may not be the same men that wrote the laws, but given that the state legislatures and the US Congress are almost entirely made up of white men still, they can seek changing the laws - they have PLENTY of representation.

And as for them not being the same ones that skipped out on child support - that may be true, but I think not being able to skip support is a HUGE incentive to change the laws so that they can get out of paying child support.

That said, when there is a large discrepancy in earning power, child support is STILL ordered in 50/50 situations. And each parent is still ordered to pay for uncovered medical, proportionate amounts of health insurance premiums, and a proportionate amount of childcare. It's not going to "eliminate" child support altogether in most situations.[/quote]

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