You’re right that it doesn’t take much bravery to avoid paying child support. However, it does a lot of bravery, courage, self-sacrifice, and fatherly love to do what John is doing.

John hasn’t avoided paying child support. He pays a significant fraction of his income in child support everytime he and his son flies across the country so that they can spend time together.

This has nothing to do with child support, but everything to do with a child’s right to spend time with his father. In this case, a child who was moved across the country due to the unilateral decision of his mother who apparently wants to be a perpetual student. Why doesn’t she use her Masters Degree to get a real job like John to help support the family, or is she simply another deadbeat? How much money does she give to John in child support? (Hint. 0%).

But in the view of family law, women should have choices, and men should have responsibilities.

Given the lack of comments about Murtari, it would appear that he is now yesterday’s news. Of course, idiots and martyrs are rarely newsworthy anyway. It was only a matter of time…