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Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson Wants to Crack Down on ‘Deadbeat Dads’

2007-08-02
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In this article, Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson says he wants to crack down on so-called “deadbeat dads.” When asked what his plan is on “strengthening families,” Richardson replied:

“I believe the key is strong child support, finding those deadbeat dads. And, I would have stronger laws between states, because what happens is they move from state to state. We don’t have those reciprocal agreements. I would have a national law that would tighten child enforcement.”

How exactly this “strengthens families,” I’m not sure. Richardson’s full interview by Jason Spencer can be found here.

To learn more about “deadbeat dads” and problems with the child support system, click here, or see my co-authored column Most Illinois ‘Deadbeats’ Aren’t ‘Reprehensible’ — They’re Broke (Chicago Daily Southtown, 6/20/07).

The American Coalition for Fathers and Children
The American Coalition for Fathers and Children is dedicated to creating a family law system which promotes equal rights for all parties affected by divorce. Contact the ACFC at 1-800-978-3237 or visit them on the web at www.acfc.org.
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  • http://www.antipeonage.0catch.com Roger Knight

    You want to talk about committment, Caligirl?

    How committed were you to the relationship with the father of your child, and to the example you made for her?

    You and your daughter both made a choice not to share the parenting responsibilities with the fathers of your children.

    You want sole custody and a sum of unearned money extorted from your men.

    Either you refused your hand in marriage or you refused shared parenting in divorce.

    If you are the petitioner in your divorce or the unwed mother, then you have a life.

    The one you chose.

    Ever notice how widows never whine about not getting their child support payments?

    Caligirl, I have only one thing to say to you:

    Grow up.

  • Caligirl

    You know it continually bothers me that we have this men against women rhetoric. It is very simple…make a commitment to your families, take care of your children and stop with the excuses and the oneupmanship mindset.

    Like I have shared here….I am a second generation of having a deadbeat dad. First my dad then my daughter’s father BOTH men made a choice to NOT pay child support to further their abuse knowing that child support would hamper the life’s of the women. They could have easily afforded it but both made comments that they did not want to support their children due to it giving the mom’s a chance to actually try and have a life. (Imagine that!) I see this as the largest problem but it is continually ignored. I SAY that the laws should be tightened and nationally enforced.

    YOU DON’T pay off your child support you financially contribute to the well being of your child. Think about it…if we did not have so many men avoiding child support obligations there would not be the need to threaten them???? I think the deadbeats are the people you should be angered at if anyone not the law or the people who need these laws enforced.

    I also don’t buy that can’t find a job excuse…if a mom who has child care to consider can find a job…why can’t a father who does not have that responsibility? I support stronger, swifter enforcement there is no reason that you should not take care of your children…man or woman….period.

  • http://MSN Tancredman

    Today with 36,000,000 ever divorced dads in the USA (And Ooops I don’t have the stats on the never married fathers in front of me…sorry), one would think the politicians would give-up on the “deadbeat dad” sloganeering for fear of loss of votes among men.

    I paid off all my child support in full. Yet, these worse than worthless politicians are STILL OFFENDING ME!

    I guess this means we can catergorize Bill Richardson as another loser “deadbeat dad” sloganeer along with Newt Gingrich and Tommy Thompson.

    Keep this “deadeat dad” storyline going on the political candidates Glen.
    I’m keeping count.

  • bolwriter

    Glenn – As far as our information shows to date, non-custodial mothers who are the subject of a child support order do slightly less well at making their payments than do non-custodial fathers. This is true despite the fact that men seek child support orders against women less often than women do against men. The result is that the women who are required to pay child support by court order are financially better off than are the corresponding men (because men are more likely to ask a woman with money for support than one who has little). In short, although women are more able to pay, they do a poorer job of it. We should make this point at every opportunity.

  • tonysprout

    Def: “Douche-Bag”: That which is USED by a femalew and usually comes out worse for the experience.

    OK, politicians would be classified as manginas or pedestalists. Wrong term in this case.

  • tonysprout

    Richardson, gov of the state that forced child support on a man for a phantom child. Need I say more? Douche-Bag!

  • http://www.antipeonage.0catch.com Roger Knight

    Robert, while your proposal is interesting, but unfortunately it has as much chance of passing as a law declaring Osama bin Ladin’s birthday a national holiday.

    However,

    The Antipeonage Act has been on the books since 1867.

    So why not put all our energy into demanding its enforcement? We can skip the effort of lobbying Congress for a new law and simply demand the enforcement of the existing law.

    Otherwise some idiot like Bill Richardson will hit upon the idea of amending the Antipeonage Act to exclude child support. The Ninth Circus already has done that with the 13th Amendment with the Ballek case.

    The real problem is that there are so many voters who hate us that Richardson thinks he’s getting their votes with this crap.

  • Robert Stevens

    This richardson fellow is just another government idiot , who thinks that the same old tired approach will work.It has not worked before, it will not work now or will it ever work. It is a failed social engineering experiment.
    We need to write a “Dummy Book” for these one tracked idiots, they don’t seem to understand the problem is preserve the family by preserving marriage. When a woman breaks the marriage contract by divorce, make her pay. She broke the contract, she did wrong. In all others arrangements, those that break contract usually suffer some type of sanction. This should apply to woman or sometimes men who brake both the marriage contract and violate the “God given” rights of the other parent to be a parent. It’s simple , you DUMB ASSES, come down of those who do wrong. Go back to common law, what I call “REAL LAW” It is simple, it is about , right , wrong and justice.
    The first step is to pass and then enforce, a proposed federal law. It is called the UPREPA That is the Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act.
    In simple term, it tells the states that the civil cause of custody is abolished.
    Joint physical/legal custody is a rebuttal presumption. A criminal cause would still be allowed. If you harm, criminally neglect or abuse your children, they still can be taken away, but we will have to be very careful not to let that be abused as well.
    To many parents have been rail roaded by the legal system. Make them prove it and prove it by an unempeachable and incontrovertable evidence.
    This simple change will take away the right of one parent to “judicially kidnap” a child and then try and extort money out of the pocket of the parent who was wronged. It would make both parents truly equal, not just the lip service we get now. It will quite difficult to remove a child from a parent and it needs to be.
    If government officials, who are sworn uphold and obey the law , violate it, come down double hard on them. Take away that immunity, if they violate a parent, they go to jail, face massive civil penalties and the state must pay fines , penalties and damages swell. Come down hard enough to the corrupt bastards and you will make them behave themselves and act like the compliant ,obedient and respectful servants that they are supposed to be!!!
    Once the “equity tribunals” ( no.. they are not courts) are stripped of this power and women can no longer get rewarded for doing wrong. You will quickly bring the problem under control. The kidnapping ,extortion and fraud will stop. It may take putting a whole lot of women and quite a few “government terrorist” in jail or prison to make it clear that this little racket is out of business.
    Once we start doing this and we will have to get very tough, you will see an improvement. It will take years to bring the very serious social problems undercontrol and it will more years on top of that to finally change peoples attitudes and finally make it ” politically inncorrect ” to do what the system does now. Once it is established in people’s minds that kidnapping , extortion and fraud are not O K , no matter if some government thug blesses that act or not , it is still wrong and those that do it should be punished severly
    I think some government compensation to those it has wronged under the colour of law is appropriate. Make them undo the wrong they commited and compensate those they have damaged by their unlawful acts. No compensation would ever be high enough or punishment severe and long lasting enough to ever satisfy most of us. But if we can put stop to this God Awful racket, then maybe our children won’t have to suffer from this. Even that is not enough, but I,for one will sleep better at night, knowing this racket is out of business and the bastards who ran it are rotting in prison for life.

  • mruffolo

    Feminism Marketing 101

    Brand fathers as bad and mothers as good.

    Feminist Government 101

    Women’s new provider and partner – government.

    Graduate School of Confusion

    That divorce strengthens family.

    Like a Jew promoting Nazis, or a Black Catholic recruiting for the KKK: statistically Bill’s wife will initiate (about 85% probability) a divorce (about 50% probability), then he lose his children (about 85% probability); give more than 50% of the property; lose income for eighteen years (100% probability); and, lose certain liberties (100% probability).







Right.

Man up.

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