Originally posted by Robtard
IIRC, child support is when one parent is forced to give or willingly gives money to the parent the child lives with to assist in caring/raising said child. eg parents divorce, mother gets custody, father pays X amount of dollars per month to help care for the child.
Not sure a single parent pays child support to themselves in order to then assist in raising the child. That's just being the parent with custody and raising the child.
So there is no problem with my objection, since my objection is that your initial solution wasn't child support at all, it os future adult support, we can call it 'FAS' for short.
Nope: it's still child support. The funds are given when they are children. They just can't use the funds until they are adults and stop receiving it when they are no longer children.
They can also get access to their funds, under my idea, many years before they are an adult: they just gotta do that college thing.
But, if your issue is really a label, just pretend it says what you want it to say. In your case, get rid of CS and call it FAS.
As the data show, a significant portion of the children are not getting the funds they need (still in poverty) and much of the court ordered CS is not being paid in full.
On top of this, CS recipients have a higher standard of living, on average, than the non-custodial parents indicating that there really is not symmetry/fairness in the current system.
And it happens to both genders.
1. What are your objections to my solutions? I listed 3:
a) Change the system to offer join custody far more often than not.
b) Change the system to not force one parent or the other to pay out CS unless it exceeds a certain custody ratio.
c) Come up with a blended system where some money goes to the children and some goes to a trust fund that requires an adult age or a college degree to access.
2. If you do have objections, what are you solutions that will not increase the amount of legislation and litigation regarding CS and CC.
3. If you have no solutions, do you think the current system is great? If you think it is great and little to no improvement, why?