Barack Obama Attacks Non-Custodial Parents
Senators say men must take responsibility for raising their children.
Back on Father’s Day, Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama made what was supposed to be inflammatory comments against absentee fathers, notably African-American ones. Barack Obama, like many Democrats, seems to have plenty on his mind that he isn’t saying clearly.
Democrats are sponsoring an effort through Senators Barack Obama and Evan Bayh to intensify child support enforcement. On the surface, this appears to be a good idea. However, what is not said is that major areas of child support law are absolutely unconstitutional, sponsored by Democrats and others as far back as the Bradley Amendment in the 1980s. None of the federal law has been repealed.
The country has a national epidemic of absentee fathers. This much may be true as statistics reveal, but Senators are looking at a symptom rather than a cause. However, creative Democrats have designed “The Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007 as their latest social engineering effort.
The legislation claims to offer support for fathers trying to do the right thing while cracking down on men that avoid “parental responsibility”. The bill is designed to provide fathers with “innovative job training” and other nameless economic opportunities while using a typical social engineering tool called the “Earned Income Tax Credit.” Hillary Clinton favored the same kind of tactics. The idea is to “help” non-custodial parents to support their families.
Combined with the unconstitutional Bradley Amendment and other similarly-styled state laws, the idea is designed to encourage the idea of outright slavery to government authority in the name of doing the right thing because, after all, the government is always there to help honest men. The track record of politicians since the Clinton presidential daze has proved otherwise as feminists took advantage of opportunities to oppress men in the name of child law, welfare reform and rightful propriety.
The “Bayh-Obama legislation” is designed to strengthen violence prevention services, once again looking at symptoms rather than causes. The proposed law is supposed to ensure that money paid for child support goes “directly to children and their mothers”, without loss of food assistance for eligible families. The same old stinking thinking that mothers are without cause in the whole process of divorce and child-rearing is offensive. The fact that politicians want to green-stamp domestic violence by supporting negative parental attitudes, including sexual immorality is even more reprehensible. Women and men are not saints and law needs to stop treating them like saints.
Senator Evan Bayh stated, “Fatherlessness is an issue many politicians would prefer to avoid, but elected officials have a moral obligation not to sit idly by while communities crumble because of the epidemic of absentee fathers. I am not naïve enough to believe that government alone can solve this problem, but together we can play a constructive role in crafting policies that attack the root causes of this epidemic.” Unfortunately, government tactics of the past have not and do not encourage family-building, but rather societal destruction.
It can be argued that the welfare system and even child support measures are a wonderful thing for many. However, the cost to the country cannot be unconstitutional state and federal laws that are supported by politicians. For example, the federal Bradley Amendment along with a flotilla of state laws that support the violation of a number of Constitutional Rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
Currently these Constitutional Rights are actively violated as well as other civil rights:
1. violation of due process under the 4th, 5th and 14th Amendments
2. deprives equal protection under the law
3. violation of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment
4. violation of natural human rights under the 9th Amendment
In a typical multi-pronged attack, the U.S. House of Representatives has companion legislation that is being introduced by Democrats Julia Carson and Danny Davis. Earmark spending is certain to follow as the legislation is crafted and agreed upon between the two legislative bodies.
Last year, Congress passed legislation based on a proposal introduced by Senator Bayh that provided up to $50 million each year for the next five years in funding for responsible fatherhood programs nationwide as part of a spending reconciliation bill to prepare for future legislation that is on the board now.
Does this political scene sound like the new politics of hope to you?
November 6, 2008 at 6:35 pm
What about the custodial parents who use children who no longer live with them to collect child support or arreages and do not let the non-custodial parent know the whereabouts of the child ? Yes, my stepdaughter is 19, has at least 2 children we are told. However, we do not know her whereabouts whilr the custodial mother continues to collect child support. She last lived with her mother in 2003!!!
This problem is not obscure. What about the 17 year old daughter that was supposed to be living with her mother, but instead was living with the family of a friend, closer to the high school of her choice and only a few blocks from her father without his knowledge? Same problem.
December 5, 2008 at 7:59 pm
here are the biggest scamers where are they getting their information from?
goto the link and see this scam !
http://www.childstats.gov/
January 13, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I am not understanding why the responsibility is left on to the non-custodial parent. I believe that the problem is not the absentee father the problem begins with the mother. There are so many options for a woman and not any options for a man. The system is backing men into a corner and they are running. In many states, the system is setting up the fathers to where their only voice in the entire process is money. Where are the father’s rights? Think about it, if your rights are taken from you and you are forced to give money to someone who you are sure do not deserve it, what would be your decision? It’s a problem that only can be solved by looking at the problem itself. The problem is the blaming process. We should not blame fathers for absentee fathers but the system. There are mothers who bare the children with the intent to collect money from the father. This is a way to gain money. There are also women who bare children with men who they will not allow to be fathers. There are also women who want the fathers to be apart of the childrens’ lives legitimately, but those are so far fetched that the men who believe in the system often will dissappear before trying to voice their rights. The courts are on the side of the mother, the laws and our legislature. The mother has the right to decide on whether she wants to keep a child, whether or not the father wants to.. and in many states she has the right to put a child up for adoption without the father’s consent. What would you expect from men? I could expect nothing less. More often than not, I am seeing fathers struggling to pay for child support, because the system has to make up for those that do not pay. Where is the family? I was always under the assumption that to support a child takes more than financial responsibility. I also believe that we need to put more of the responsibility on the mothers as they are given choices and rights that men aren’t given. I believe that the caring of a child should be 50% from both parents to include, financial, emotional, religiously and morally. If someone was to birth a child that you did not want there is one choice for you as a man. Give your money. Fatherhood, no longer represent being a father… it represents being a bank. As a daughter of a father who provided financially, I would much rather have my father there for emotional support and fatherly love than any amount of money that Child Support Enforcement could have stipulated for him to pay and remain absent because he couldnt afford anything else.
November 4, 2009 at 10:36 am
AMEN!
It seems as if the non-custodial father has no rights but to pay bills!!!
February 21, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY WHAT I HAVE READ. IT AMAZES ME THAT SO MANY FATHERS ARE GOING THROUGH SO MUCH WITH THIS CORRUPTED SYSTEM. SO MANY NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS DO OR TRY TO DO WHATS RIGHT FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN, ON THE OTHER HAND THEIR ARE MANY WHO DO NOT (ITS A GAMBLE) MOST FATHERS WANT TO BE THERE FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE MOTHERS WANT LET THEM AND THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. SO MANY CUSTODIAL PARENTS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND USING THE SYSTEM AS A WEAPON THEREFORE LEAVING THE NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS BACK AGAINST THE WALL, SOME FATHERS DO FLEE AND SOME CHOOSE TO STAY AND FIGHT AND DO THE BEST THEY CAN TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR CHILD/CHILDREN. HOW CAN THIS HONESTLY BE JUSTIFIED, HOW CAN WE FATHERS HAVE A VOICE, MORE IMPORTANTLY WHO WILL LISTEN? I AM CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A ROUGH TIME, JULY-16-2008 WAS MY LAST DAY OF STEADY WORK, COULD NOT FIND A JOB WITHIN MONTHS. THROUGH ALL OF THIS MY CHILDREN WERE MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE, I HAVE NO WAY OF CONTACTING THEM. BEFORE ALL OF THIS THE MOTHER NEVER INCLUDED ME IN ANY SCHEDULED EVENTS AND I WAS PAYING CHILD SUPPORT. ITS JUST CLEARLY NOT RIGHT TOWARDS ME AS THE FATHER. THIS IS A MONEY GAME FOR MOST CUSTODIAL PARENTS. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS I CAN TELL YOU BUT THE WAY IM FEELING. ITS A NO WIN SITUATION FOR FATHERS BUT WHATEVER YOU DO KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND DO THE BEST YOU CAN FOR YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN. I KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY BUT REST ASSURE ONE DAY THIS MESS WILL TURN AROUND AND OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD, WE WILL RECIEVE FAIR TREATMENT AND OUR RIGHTS WILL BE JUSTIFIED.
April 11, 2009 at 10:30 am
I take serious offense to being called a dead beat dad!!! If I prove I’m there for my child and trying to work with this unfair system! And I still my to take away my constitutional rights. Than I shouldn’t be called dead beat dad, but called 2nd class citisen !!!! Because thats what they made me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Fathers need to start asking for joint PHISICAL custody. Or love your children enough to sign over all parental rights and walk away! Make them (mothers and the goverment) choose to make you 50% equal. the current system that they give you is just that (no parental rights, no support)
If you have a good attorney, he or she will carefully explain (if you have the presence of mind to remember during the crisis) that custody and support have no relevance or direct tie to the other. You do not have THE RIGHT to sign all parental rights away under the majority of circumstances. Those are the facts as they are generally distributed to the public at-large. JOINT PHYSICAL custody is a stopgap cure for parental rights, but not a solution to the Bradley Law.~E.M.
July 18, 2009 at 8:29 pm
What will the government do about the mothers who use child support as leverage toward to fathers who are already doing the right thing. When a mother becomes angry or disappointed at her life and seeks to make the father suffer, she uses the system to drag the man through court. Even when the father can show he is actvie in the child life and goes as far as to deposit extra money into the mother account for the child. Not to mention the credit i have with DOR. I just think that at some point the system needs stop letting the mother always win, becasue when they want more, they always get more, even if the father is doing the right thing. Most DOR cases are over in minutes and only consist of how much he makes, and how much she makes: you need to pay this. This should not be the case for every mother who claims “i need more money”….
There needs to be some form of system in place to investigate both parties and determine if it is truly a legitimate modification case or just an angry mother….
Or in some cases, simply a maternal sociopath. ~ E.M.
July 22, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Just a quick question. Sorry to be a devil’s advocate. My child is in the same state she was born in and her father actually holds less than 50% “financial” responsibility for support. He moved out of state, hasn’t seen her in almost two years, barely calls her, and is in arrears. What then? The funny thing is, the child support goes to support the kids. As long as the custodial parent uses it for rent, food, fuel, clothing for the child, doctors’ visit, etc… it’s being used FOR THE CHILD! I say, let’s make child support tax deductible… that oughta make the NCP’s want to pay it… right??????
Thank you.
Tax deductible child support. A good idea. ~ E.M.
August 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm
lets just say that the law was different e.g. no child support for custodial parent unless the couple was married. Don’t you believe this would solve ALL of the PROBLEMS>?
August 30, 2009 at 10:04 am
I have linked your site to our Petition. The information you have provided here is well presented and to the point. This system is a ‘total shambles!”
I have had three cries for help from those who want to commit suicide on our Petition already, all in direct result of the Child Support System.
No one has any idea what it’s like to receive a cry for help until it happens…
If anyone here would like to leave a name and ‘valid’ email address on our Petition against Child Support, please do so here: PetitionChildSupportReform.com
September 17, 2009 at 1:59 am
I was laid off of my job, and told by the Child support Agent that she ‘doesnt care!” She issued a Bench Warrant for my arrest because i was to far behind in the arrears. My unemployment recently kicked in, and they have been deducting the money outta my check for three months now. But they still have’nt dropped the warrant. The Child support Agent says i can get 18 months in prison for “Contempt of Court’, even though i have’nt commited any crimes except losing my job. Im trying to contribute to society and live the american dream, but they took my drivers license. I cant drive or travel because i cant obtain a passport. I was 17 when i had my child, now im 30. My son mother is married with 4 kids, she was allowed to move on with her life, but the state has me in some sort of Servitude. I work for them, not for my family. Im forced to take any menial job just to avoid going to jail. This makes me hate my country I’ll rather live in Russia.
October 6, 2009 at 2:24 am
you have my vote, women and gov. every dangerous combination it feel like their sucking the life out of you . and when the call us dead beat dads its just to justify there greed they have to paint a bad image, this just makes a women day it an excuse the gov gets what they and women get what they want the child suffers emotionally and the man(who cares) pay us.
October 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm
The economy can no longer sustain this corrupt business called Child Support Enforcement. End it NOW! The abuses by state workers are far too rampant and are not benefiting anyone least of all the children.
Sadly, according to the current laws the worst criminals in the world are parents. Such shame that this society places so little value on parents these days and even gives rapists and murders more due process in the courts.
This Presidential propaganda doesn’t help matters. There are far too many angry people out there who are fed up with this system and we are NOT going to go away! This needs to be addressed ASAP! and these people are custodial and non custodial parents alike!
And personally, I think people should not even have children until this system gets fixed as you run the risk of becoming a money making machine for the state.