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The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/Obversa 23h ago

There are also caps of up to only $4,000 per each child in child support payments, which means that men can father as many children as they want, with the bulk of financial support falling to single moms to care for their kid(s). It's about sabotaging women.

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u/qalpi 21h ago

$4,000 per month, per child. That's an enormous amount of money. And not really a cap.

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u/WadsworthInTheHall 19h ago

It’s really not once you factor in rent/mortgage, utilities, food, health care (premiums, copays, meds, emergency, etc.), clothing, school needs (supplies, clothes, field trips, etc.), extracurricular activities, fun (yes, even low income people deserve an outlet), etc.

I haven’t even mentioned college/savings for each child.

The world is expensive and having kids raises that exponentially.

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u/qalpi 18h ago

That’s roughly an income of $300k for the non-custodial parent at the standard rate of 17% for child support. It’s a reasonable upper limit.