Do you think putting men in prison for child support makes sense???

I think prison is going a little too far. My sweetheart's ex-wife took out a warrant on him years ago, but he never stopped paying support. Now she's having a heck of a time getting the darn warrant lifted, and the poor guy gets arrested every time he tries to travel.

My feeling is if your broght children into the world, they didn't have s say about it. Both parents are responsible for making sure that childs needs are met. I have am familiar with child support laws. It is appalling the fathers, and mothers who owe child support and don't pay it. I agree in taking their freedom away. They are not paying anyways, and the state is, so why not take their freedom of coming and going. Maybe prision, will knock a few jolts into them, and they will start paying. Prison is pretty, but withholding from your child is also not pretty. As I stated earlier, isn't just isn't men who don't meet their obligation. There are countless women who don't either, and the same should go for them.

Yes I believe this is a good idea espeically if the father is like thousands of dollars behind. I think this will scare most of the fathers into getting jobs and finally paying. I know my girlfriend had troubles collecting child support for years but finally the laws changed and thats what happened here. They threatean to throw him in jail and he finally started paying regular child support.

Well, it is true that they are not making money if in prison, but then again, they are in prison because they have not paid their child support. I'd think doing time in prison for not paying might motivate some to actually pay the support upon getting out of prison. Maybe.

When a parent is put in jail for non-payment of child support they are allowed out on work release. At least here in Nebraska they are. My ex moved to Japan with his second wife and stopped paying child support because Japan doesn't enforce the U.S's child support laws. He didn't pay for two years while he was there, and when he and his second wife divorced he moved back to the states and didn't pay child support for several months when he got back, even though he had a job. He was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail if he didn't start paying again. He started paying again really fast, faced with that threat. They also decided they would just take it out of his checks so he wouldn't be able to put it off. Thankfully he always worked, and he always let the state know if he changed jobs. He has since signed over rights and my husband has adopted my kids, and my ex has remarried and had another child. I tend to see this to be a vision of future problems with his third wife...

You know I have mixed feelings about this subject. I am divorced and have paid child support faithfully for 14yrs now and I understand making a man pay his child support. My ex and I get along great and maybe it would be different if I didnt pay? But, I dont pay for her I pay for my son. It took me along time to admit that part of it and trust that she was a good mother, and she is! I do believe that times are a changing. The courts are finely recognizing that a woman can be just as crazy and as unfit as a father can be. I think seriously that the courts should make the man pay his child support and the woman ducument were it goes by reciepts and vice versa. I have seen some sad cases of buddies of mine that had horrible ex-wifes didnt matter if they paid child support regularly or not she was still as mean as a snake. If the child needs support then the obligator has to pay thats the long and the short of it, doesnt matter if he or she is in the big house the child still needs glue and crayons.

Work camp will be better that prison. In why way or another the kid gets hurt.

this never did make since to me,as to why they would put a dad in jail or prison for none child support.they still arent going to get any money from the dad.like you they need a work program for those who dont have a job.they could work for the city or state on the highwaysor picking up trash anything but jail time.

a prison doesn't work at all! i think a work camp will do if these guys don't earn any money! but the other site is that some man can't see their child just because these wifes don't want them to, and at that point i say, if you don't see you kid(only in the normal way ofcourse, without abuse, fighting and other bad stuff) you don't have to pay! i am that kind of situation with my husband! she lives far from here, and the judge told her she had to bring him equal as my husband does, but she refuses, and make the kid sick when my husband goes to any loyer! suddenly the kid doesn't want to see his dad! yes only if my husban dgets him! so i say, if she not brings the kid she won't get any money(ans she has enough to bring him)

You are so correct that to put a man in prison for lack of child support payment is ludicrous! How on earth will he pay it from the confines of a prison where he can't work! I love the idea of a supervised work program. Perhaps the authroities can find them work, and then garnish the wages. There are plenty of jobs to be had. As you stated, jobs that help the community are the best ones, get two good deeds out of one job!

I do not think prison would help the child. There should be a work camp or some other work Facility were the DAD can work and the money would go to the Mother to help pay the expenses of the child and any back child support the Dad owes.

I agree with you. Putting men in prison for not paying their child support solves nothing. Then they can get away with it and justify it while the women has to struggle to take care of the child. That is not fair at all. Your solution is a good one. These men are not violent men and no threat to society. As you say the taxpayor is the one who is taking care of the man. Put him to work and the money he earns is not his but sent to help take care of the child or children. Your idea is a really good one.

yeh i think they need to save the jails for the real criminals. and i think the idea of the work camp is wonderful.

i think you are right because when amn are put to prison for only simple reason, tou never wat goes in their head when they got out they can be agressive and violent to the child itself. or it may happn that they started hating their child. therefore i think that there should be a physcological support to these person so as they can see the importance of the child and may be it would be a natural reaction from them to brind support to the child as they may be will realise that the child need them. the solution is to get in the depth of their reaction and to therefore find a solution to the problems.

No thats not the solution. Especially in California the prisons here is overcrowded and have in May to solve the problem. They have to start releasing prisoners early. That would just overcrowd the system and make it more worse than it is now. it a stupid idea and the taxpayers are ended up paying more.

They don't just put men in jail for child support, they put women in as well. They also take away drivers license if child support is unpaid. They do alot now a days before they end up putting someone in prision. And even when in prision, they still have to pay for back child support. It just adds up. They put them in jail, hoping that when they get out, they will get their stuff together and start doing what they need to do and support their children. So yes, I think it makes sense. So many fathers/mothers get away with not paying child support and maybe if they get the crap scared out of them, they will start doing their part. Just remember that it's not just men. I know a woman who has to pay child support to her 3 kids.

what you are saying is perfectly true,and i endorse your views, laws which are antiquated and does not conform towards the need of the present times need to be amended

I think that's a very good idea...I mean any chance the poor family had of getting anything from the guy is gone if he goes to prison. They should get a job while they are in prison and whatever money they earn, should be sent to their family. Of course I guess prisoners don't make much, but that can be fixed. But you're idea of these non-violent men working at some public service is a great idea. Why hasn't anyone thought of that? Or maybe they have, but politics got in the way, or some other silly thing like that.

what about women and child support? It is just not men who do this, it is also women.

Prison solves nothing and costs everyone. Do they not garnishee wages where you live? They will do that where I live.