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Should Child Support Guidelines be taught in Sex education classes?


I think that they would be a great deterent in preventing teenage pregnancy?

Absolutely. A large percentage of children will be affected by child support in the future and they should all be prepared.
Boys especially should be informed about what happens when a pregnancy occurs, especially in an unmarried situation. In short, his choices are over. He will be forced to supply an amount of money each month that exceeds the USDA requirements of costs; that this "debt" is unforgivible; that he can be jailed for failing to pay this "debt"; that he may or may not be granted "visitation" with his children; that the money he pays to the other parent can be used for any purpose, legal or illegal; if he accepts another job to support himself and his children (and their mother), in most states, his child support debt will also increase; even if he can prove to be unable through no fault of his own to be unable to pay the current amount, his potential income may be assessed beyond his ability and child support set on the judges opinion of what he *should* be earning; that in most cases, even though paying far too much, he will lose any tax deductions.
They need to understand that even if married, he can be divorced for absolutely no reason whatever and will almost certainly be assigned as "absent" or "non-custodial" parent and forced to pay too much for too long to his ex-wife.
In either case, he loses all ability to direct his children's lives and choose what is best, having always to defer to the 'proper' parent.

Also, they need to be informed that they should never take the word of a woman that they are the father of her children as up to 30% of men are unrelated to children he though were his.

It is interesting to me that I got a thumbs down. I would be very curious to know why it would be bad to inform boys what they face as men. Report It

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Parents talking to their kids should be a great deterent in preventing teenage pregnancy.

The schools should be a second line of defense...NOT the first. In a world where just about anything and everything is OK to do...somehow parents have forgotten what it means to be a parent and not a best friend.

Sex education...what a joke. Why don't we start requiring a Moral Education class first?

Wow-I think that's a great idea! They should learn the guidelines exist, how the guidelines operate and be assigned to calculate support on a fictional family. The students should not have to memorize the support guidelines, which change. They should have at least a day's lesson devoted to child support and learn the basic law of support. They should know that child support arreages cannot be forgiven by a Court and cannot be bankrupted. Support is neither income to the recipient or tax deductible to the payer. They should understand the child support credits for paying insurance and daycare.

Within the limits of the non-excitement.

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