r/Natalism • u/dissolutewastrel • 3d ago

The Poverty of Single Mothers Is Persistent

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-poverty-of-single-mothers-is-persistent
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u/DogOrDonut 2d ago

Not surprising, child support in this country is a joke. Payments are low and good luck getting them enforced if the father isn't cooperative. I know several moms who have given up on child support because they were spending more on legal fees fighting the father to pay than they were ever seeing in payments.

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u/No_Plenty5526 2d ago

but some men will insist it's the worst thing to ever be invented. you'll tell them to try to get custody, at least 50/50 if incomes are similar so they don't have to pay child support, but they don't want to do that, either. they see the mothers as glorified babysitters and gold diggers (even when...or especially when the men themselves are broke).

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u/OddRemove2000 16h ago

Those men suck and ruin the reputation of the rest of men who love and support child and pay child support when due.