Preview

Deadbeat Dads: Irresponsible Parents or Political Scapegoats?

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
360 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Deadbeat Dads: Irresponsible Parents or Political Scapegoats?
Irresponsible parents or political scapegoats? Its very easy to bring a child into this world. It takes a man and a woman to quickly construct a child in the heat of the moment. The problem with this is that in some cases, the father takes off on the mother and the newborn baby. He is suddenly faced with the responsibility of costly child support and simply being around and tending to this new child in his life. It is a life altering experience for both the mother and the father. In many cases the men try to make an escape due to the fact that they dont want to be involved with the mother and the new child, therefore leave the child behind, fatherless. I believe all deadbeat dads are selfish, irresponsible men whose mental growth has been stunted somehow or another. A grown man should take full responsibility for a child he has created. It is not fair to his partner or his child to be walked out on like that.

However, in some cases, women can be conniving and skimp on birth control pills and get pregnant by mistake by a man with good genes. There are many of those out there as well as the selfish men whose partners believed were good hearted and loyal. Women can also be to blame sometimes. In a case like this, where a man is tricked into believing the woman is taking a form of a contraception, I dont think the man should have to be involved with the aftermath. If he firmly gave the understanding to the woman, that he doesnt want a baby in the first place, then the woman should take full responsibility for her actions of sneakiness. It is a serious thing to bring a child into this world. Some people are simply not able to be parents. For the people, who are honest from the start, I have sympathy. However, I have zero compassion for the other irresponsible deadbeats who walk out on taking care of the children they were aware of creating from the start.

Works cited:www.amazon.com/Deadbeat-Dads-National-Support-Scandal/dp/0275951251 -

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if they have, why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs frequently results in multiple births, which leads to the death of one of the infants, often after an agonizing struggle for survival. According to the rules of the pro-lifers, isn’t this murder?” The type of fallacy used is straw man.…

    • 882 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    However, Zoe is actually initiated into the group of bullies, before she realises the error…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In my opinion, anyone who gets pregnant as a teenager should have had better access to birth control and comprehensive sex education.…

    • 2110 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    My mother was a single mom who had three kids including myself. Granted, I got lucky because my dad was very involved and gave me everything I needed. So I never went through a time in my life where this Deadbeat Parent Act pertained to me or my parents. However, I have seen my sisters and friends go through situations where they don’t get help from the father or their children. I have witnessed my friends go to court over their children’s dads not paying child support. Those dads were punished by their taxes going to their child’s mom and not them. Since they owed so much in child support, they didn’t see a dime of their taxes this year. One thing I didn’t agree with in this article is when they decide to suspended drivers license. I think that a driver license is a luxury to have and should be taken away be the courts when you do something wrong but I think it makes it harder for that person to go to his or her job. If that parent can’t get to work, how are they going to pay child support? I think they could find a better way to punish a parent. I think the court should court order them to work 30-40 hours a week and if they don’t, they get jail time. That wouldn’t give a parent the excuse as to why they couldn’t pay that week. This punishment would make people want to work, keep busy, and stay out of trouble. I also didn’t agree with was when the parent…

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Single parents are becoming the norm these days and the government has stepped in to assist these custodial parents to make things fair. It takes two people to make a child so it seems only fair that two people support the child financially, right? I am a single mother. My daughter’s father, Donnie, and I were never married and weren’t together at the time of her birth. He wasn’t around to sign the birth certificate so I had to go through DFS to fill paperwork out to get support payments from him after our daughter (Nathalia) was born. When I filled out the CSE (Child Support Enforcement) paperwork the case was being handled by a caseworker in Jefferson City, MO. I gave the caseworker Donnie’s address about four months after our daughter’s birth. Nothing was done and I assumed they were having trouble getting hold of him. When Nathalia was five years old my case was moved to a caseworker in Columbia who called and got the information from me again and I received paternity paperwork within the month. The way it works is the noncustodial parent only has to pay from the time the paperwork showing paternity was sent. I had tried to contact Nathalia’s father to start visitation. He came around for one hour a week for about two months then just stopped. He paid the arrearage for support payments after facing criminal charges for non-payment of support payments, and being threatened with a year in jail if the support was not paid. I feel no sympathy. Now he is back to not making the payments. On the other hand I have a friend (Jessica, fictional name) who has a five year old daughter (Hannah, fictional name) whose father has been in and out of jail for child support non-payment. He has a relationship with Hannah and has care of her fifty percent of the time. The government wants to put him back in jail for arrearage on Hannah and two of his other…

    • 2077 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    If birth control is being used to prevent pregnancy then there is nothing wrong with that. Imagine you daughter asking you for birth control and you tell her no. She has a boyfriend and she is sexually active and is too scared to tell you about it. She ends up pregnant and aborting it. Now you’re blaming yourself for not letting her be on it in the first…

    • 1604 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Fathers are often left out of research, as society focuses mainly on mothers and their roles in the parent-child relationship. If research is done, the research surrounds fathers who belong to the middle- and upper-class. The article entitled “Father Involvement in Urban Low-Income Fathers: Baseline Associations and Changes Resulting From Preventive Intervention” examines father involvement among ethnically diverse, low-income fathers. The goals of the research consist of filling the gaps of the literature, by studying a different population, and evaluating if whether attendance of workshops that concentrate on communication, coping, and parenting skills within this population will affect the ways in which fathers contribute to rearing children (Reinks et al., 2011).…

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Against Abortion Satire

    • 305 Words
    • 2 Pages

    There is no reason to punish an unborn child, just because they are unwanted. Especially for the reason that most women, are with complete control of their body; meaning they could prevent any risk of the unwanted pregnancy. So just because the women made the mistake of having a baby she didn’t want or couldn’t take care of, doesn’t mean she should put the burden of that on a unborn…

    • 305 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I learned that one excuse people use to justify is rape. Well I looked the statistics up and two to five percent of rape victims end up pregnant, and that is if they go and report the crime so a doctor can clean them out with a rape kit. And if this is the situation then they can simply give the baby to someone who does want kids like my aunt and many other women who would and will love the baby. When I read in high detail this next part I could not stop crying, because of the horror of it all and the evil that a person must be, to do this. Pro-choice never explains to anyone about the “fetus” moving around trying to get away from the instruments doctors’ use when they perform an abortion. The doctors that do this for a living and know the practice like the back of their hand never tell women about the baby pushing away from the probes they use while murdering them or the way the baby fights with all the strength he has until his death. This is how bad our society has gotten, because the mother’s womb is supposed to be the safest place for a child. Well even in there some babies are faced with the fear of their innocent…

    • 1436 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Children in families with absent fathers are more vulnerable compared to the children in families, where two parents are present. Self-appraisal in children with absent fathers is quite low, as these children suffer from their mother's emotional crisis, as well as her attempts to replace the role that the father is supposed to play, as mother often tries to adhere to strict educational and behavioural strategies, while neglecting traditional mother's traits of character, such as care, maternal love and attitude, and tolerance to children. At the same time, such change in behaviour has negative impact on child's self-esteem, sense of self-reliance, and positive self-appraisal in general.…

    • 626 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Abortion Persuasive Speech

    • 1726 Words
    • 7 Pages

    In the twenty-first century, everyone wants what they want, when they want it. Our culture is obsessed with immediacy. Because of our human nature, we want to be able to choose everything, even our consequences, despite our action. Sometimes a person getting what they desire is a good thing, but it can also be bad. There are many choices on debate. and one of them is a mother’s choice to keep or kill her baby. Seemingly linked to that, is the choice to be pregnant at all. Although the rampant use of birth control among young women has caused uproar in society because of its relation to abortion and religious and health reasons, it is important to know exactly what kind of birth control is being discussed, how it works, and why people are against it. Not all forms of birth control are abortion, but that…

    • 1726 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Men may only have a few choices in this matter but women have many. From taking a small pill daily, to having her tubes cut or tied to prevent pregnancy, abortion of children that are not wanted are very easily preventable. Abortions not only cause unwanted pain to the child, but to the mother as well. Some of the pain is physical, some of it can be mental pain; that only comes after there is no turning back and the child is gone. Birth control can prevent an innocent child that did not ask for any of the pain that he or she may go through when they are aborted. It is also a very practical decision in a person’s life when the thought of not wanting children is…

    • 1558 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Susan’s circumstance clearly indicated that she was forced to face this dilemma through no fault of her own. She was careful enough to use contraception and it failed her thus she is not responsible for the event that led her to pregnancy. Susan was already a mother…

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    When this is suggested, arguments of illegitimate children born to women who cannot afford to take care of them. But why is it another person’s fault that this happens? The mother and father of the child are responsible for it. They consented to sexual intercourse and knew the consequences of it.…

    • 1310 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    mistake and take responsibility for conceiving a child. Of course, a woman and a man are at…

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays