I got the interstate court hearing and my daughter was already eighteen and my son received payments for just over a year. I am fortunate, my children stayed healty. Until I started meeting so many single mothers having the same problem, I was certain it was because I was a man asking for support. The national debt owed to children is growing by millions of dollars each year. The time for a change in the system is past due.
Children are the most valuable resource in America.
I am a single parent of four children, and deal with this issue like many others around our nation. Child support has been an ongoing battle as for as I don't know when. What ceases to amaze me is that we as human beings, adult's, mothers, fathers and as people, can not look beyond ourselves and the dollar signs to realize how our behavior and actions impact the very souls, that are to benefit from our responsibility and from the child support. It's not about which person hurt whom, who did what to the other, it's about our children regardless of how it ended up in a child support issue. Fighting, complaining, walking away, abandoning or ignoring the issue, changes nothing, it only causes greater pain to the children.