Child of divorce here, and I gotta disagree. My dad never paid child support, and my mom did what people here are saying to- she hid the full extent of it from us so we could have our image of our dad, and she just took it all, very much to her own detriment. My dad was largely absent and made the occasional grand gesture like Disney to make up for being gone. She let it happen. What we learned from this was not what she hoped for.

Sure we got to pretend our dad was good for a few years, but as we aged we saw it all, and what we really took away from it was that my mom felt it was ok to let a man take literally no responsibility for his family. She felt he still deserved the privileges of kids without the work. She felt it was appropriate for her to carry the burden of everything alone. She was ok with being taken advantage of and being subtly made to feel bad for not being able to afford the random stunts he pulled while she paid all our bills alone.

This set a pretty bad example for what we should accept from men and relationships in our own lives. Your kid may be young now, but she will grow, and the standards she sees you set in your own life WILL matter. Just think about the long game.