A Break For Taxpayers? Missouri Legislator Tries To Remove Roadblock To Paying Child Support

When did it become acceptable in American culture for men to abandon their responsibility in supporting their children?

There was a day in our society that if a man didn’t support his children he was ostracized and shunned. That was enough consequence to keep them on a path where they took pride in being the kind of men that stepped up to give their children the best they could. Not so much anymore.

During that time a woman’s contribution to raising the family and maintaining the home carried at least a certain amount of respect. Not so much anymore.

Traditional family roles have been denigrated and socially engineered out of the mainstream.

And because of the changes to traditional family, society bears a larger burden in picking up the slack when those who should–don’t.

On November 11 Fox2 News‘s Eliott Davis reported how one state legislator in Missouri is looking at one aspect of the problem in hopes of shoring up a piece of a failing system that is supposed to protect the family structure and support children.

Senator-Elect Karla May thinks the system that punishes fathers who don’t pay child support by revoking their driver’s licenses is counter productive to the support of children and family.

And she makes a great point.

The state of Missouri will incarcerate some and revoke driver’s licenses for others who are delinquent in paying their child support.

Preventing men from traveling to work by taking their driver’s license is a roadblock that causes all sorts of problems in their ability to support their children.

Davis notes that it costs Missouri taxpayers $58 per day per jailed father resulting in costs of over $4 million per year for taxpayers.

Davis didn’t report on the costs to taxpayers of mothers and children who are forced to seek state support as a result of non child support collection, another huge problem in the family court system.

May admits there are some fathers that simply do not wish to pay support and her fix does not address the willful violators of the law. However, by revoking drivers licenses from those who are sincerely trying to work to support their children does not help to solve the problem, in her opinion.

There are a lot of problems in the severely broken family court system in Missouri and across the country. Tying the hands of fathers who are sincerely trying to support their children is not a solution.

Let’s hope we see more attention to family court matters from the Missouri legislature. And I certainly hope that relaxing of consequence for those who willfully violate state statutes that support family structure will not continue.

The family courts have become an industry that has veered far from it’s purpose of securing the family foundation. Taxpayers are propping up the failures they generate and children and families are suffering.

We hope May has great success with this particular effort and we hope to see more from the Missouri legislature to address these issues further.

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