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On a scale of one to 100, with one being your first choice, how would you rank your
opinion of "child support"?
 | "Child support" is a violation of my fundamental religious beliefs. |
 | I am a conscientious objector. |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for kidnapping my own children. |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for breaking her marriage contract (vows). |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for stealing everything she could. |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for lying. |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife even if I had one million dollars...or a billion!
|
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for even if I can "visit" every weekend...or
even every day! |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife who can't control the spending. |
 | I don't want to pay an ex-wife for for preventing me from seeing children who belong in
my custody. |
 | I believe that "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even
to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD",
Deuteronomy 23:2 |
 | It's an Oedipus complex--where the child and the mother try to kill or over throw the
father |
 | It's schizophrenic--declaring one thing (the marriage is over and was never valid to
begin with) and then trying to declare the very opposite (the father is to support the
family as if the marriage was NOT over and the contract WAS valid!) |
 | It's a form of situational ethics--it sets up a choice between 2 worse case scenarios
and asks the person to choose one of the bad choices instead of a better choice not
included by the questioner. |
 | The choice is between paying child support or not--rather than the better choice to
preserve the original marriage and its contract. |
 | Its like a court offering an employer the choice between: do you want to give the
employee who has just resigned full ownership of the company in violation of his contract
or do you want us to close you down for non-compliance? Neither! I want the contract to be
honored and upheld! |
 | It's anti-scriptural (the husband shall rule over the wife). |
 | It's unjust. |
 | I don't want my children to grow up in a female headed kinship system that makes them 8
times more likely to be delinquent. |
 | It reduces my marriageability. |
 | It makes my child more divorce prone. |
 | I owe my ex-wife nothing, especially for reneging on her marriage vows. |
 | It undermines marriage by subsidizing the retroactive destruction of my family. |
 | It deprives my children of their father. |
 | It undermines my wife's marriage vow--she never really gave me a family though she
expects to be paid for doing so. |
 | It promotes sexual irresponsibility. |
 | It equals a father substitute that is no where close to being equal. |
 | It undermines hypergamy. |
 | It punishes me for being guilty of no fault. |
 | It rewards my wife for sexual disloyalty. |
 | It encourages other women to divorce. |
 | Its unconstitutional--i.e. against due process. |
 | It's a form of racketeering (Stephen Baskerville likes that term.). |
 | It's extortion. |
 | It's slavery. |
 | It's a Faux Pa (fake father) |
 | It's domestic violence. |
 | It's child abuse. |
 | It promotes fatherlessness AND motherlessness at the same time. |
 | It discourages legal marriages. |
 | It ghettoizes our society |
 | It creates an unlawful entitlement. |
 | It's a liberal scheme to redistribute wealth like communism. |
 | It's insane. |
 | It treats Dad like an idiot.or a criminal.or both! |
 | It doesn't provide any quid pro quo. |
 | It doesn't maintain the separation of church and state (my marriage was a religious
experience that the state should stay completely out of!) |
 | It lets the government creep into my bedroom in matters of sex that it should stay out
of. |
 | It violates the dictum or creed: my paycheck, my self (an echo of the feminist battle
cry). |
 | It promotes gun control, since the government has to step in to try to control my kids
after I have been kicked out of the home. |
 | It is not libertarian. |
 | To paraphrase Pres. Kennedy, ask NOT what your husband can do for you, ask what you can
do for your husband! |
 | It is unlawful welfare. |
 | It doesn't work, just like most welfare doesn't work. |
 | It encourages more homosexuality since kids are being raised without a dad to role
model. |
 | One house is cheaper than two. |
 | I never agreed to the deal in the first place; I was coerced against my will. |
 | No taxation without representation. |
 | We fought a revolutionary war for freedom.and a Civil War against slavery only throw it
all away. |
 | It hurts my self esteem. |
 | It destabilizes the institution of marriage. |
 | Real men don't pay child support to anybody. |
 | It is harmful to my health. |
 | It increases taxes to pay for all the father substitute functions of government:
welfare, AFDC, etc. |
 | It produces more antagonism and jealousy between the sexes. |
 | My wife isn't worth it. |
 | It prevents women from being able to stand on their own two feet. |
 | It is blatant sexual discrimination. |
 | It adds too many new layers of bureaucracy to our overly centralized government. |
 | It's unethical and immoral. |
 | It's completely bogus-family court is nothing more than a kangaroo court with no rules
of evidence, presumption of innocence, etc., in normal courts. |
 | It undermines the integrity of the entire judicial system. |
 | It's my free expression of speech, like bra burning was for feminist-I'm getting rid of
external, restrictive, women-made supports! |
 | It is not in the best interests of my children. |
 | I don't want to pay it. |
 | It costs the government more to collect than it ever brings in. |
 | It increases dependency on males by amoral females. |
 | It teaches kids that crime pays. |
 | THE GAP OF MAN'S LIFE EXPECTANCY increases as female power increases! |
 | I don't have any money. |
 | I'm not allowed to visit my children. |
 | I have no control over the spending of the "child support". |
 | I didn't want the child. |
 | The child isn't even my own child. |
What do you believe should be added to the following reasons for why "child
support" should be paid and how would you rank those reasons from one to 4?