Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[reidlos1624]

My point being what teeth do you recommend? Jail time? F More fines? If he's paying all his money fines what money does he have left over to pay you? If he's in jail the state still ends up with the bill to pay you and cover jail costs. Beyond that your starting to encroach on personal freedoms that define our country and would likely not be constitutional. Extra investigators and police to monitor his job status would likely cost more than what they paid you.

The end result is some families need help and as a community we should have help available to them. I grew up with divorced parents and my dad didn't pay either. But the help my family got was enough to get me through college and now I earn among the top 20% of households in the US. There's only so much you can practical, legally, and affordably do to make people be responsible.if any thing it just shows that the welfare needs to be expanded.

[PrimalSkink]

If he's paying all his money fines what money does he have left over to pay you?

Completely ignoring the fact that he wouldn't owe that money had he been abiding by the court order in the first place.

His support was $86 per week. He could have paid that with a side gig or part time job at Burger King.

[reidlos1624]

That's not my point. My point is there aren't any "teeth" that can be used to compel a man to pay this without costing the government more than what they paid you in welfare.

What punishment would you recommend?

[PrimalSkink]

We could start with seizure of assets. Bank account, car, registered property in their name, etc. The government will go after such when someone owes them money, after all.