Downey became a familiar face on C-SPAN, especially for his work on child support in the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources. His frequent loud and venomous attacks against fathers did not serve to keep him in office. The Democrat was replaced by a Republican - from New York. Leftists recognized a problem in pushing for federal intrusion into family life during the Reagan years when welfare reform blossomed. Since then, every single bit of propaganda used to promote the reforms has been disproven by competent and credible research and contradicted by experience.
Common sense is better than political propaganda.
If you suspected that fathers are good people on the whole, you were right. This is social management similar to that of the KGB and Hitler, with the efficiency of modern computers and a 50,000 strong human workforce. Child support reform has not been for children and judging by the level and character of complaints, the new system is frustrating and angering many women too. It started as nothing more than a trick to increase pork barrel spending, concentrate power in the federal government, to create several new profit making operations taking advantage of human misery, and it has been accompanied by a profound loss of basic human rights. Republicans need to understand the math.