Dead Beat Moms

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I hear so much about dead-beat Dads - is that because more women are on the Internet than men and sit in these discussion groups? Well, what about Moms who are deadbeats? I just posted this in another discussion. My partner *was* getting $23 every 2 weeks from his ex-wife as support for 2 teenagers. That didn't even pay their lunch money for school. Her excuse was that was all she could afford. Now you know that if that was the father, the judge would be telling him to get a second job if he had to and send the support. I believe the state guidelines here are $100 per child per week. How she got away with paying so little just kills me. So she gets sick and stops working (actually was fired, for what we don't know) and stops paying support. Meanwhile, she and her new husband are buying new computers and fixing up their place. We have copies of the IM conversations where she's telling the kids this. She sent $25 for the whole month of Januar and nothing else since October. I just paid $30 for his son to have new sneakers cause the old ones had holes in them and it's been below zero. I just wish the Moms that are dead-beats to the custodial fathers would get the same treatment as when it's in reverse.