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You're going to have to elaborate here in order for this post to make any sort of sense...

I've tried too many times already.

I am unable to afford two houses. I am unable to afford housing, utilities, et.al., for another household. I checked my paycheck and it's just as true now as it was five minutes ago.

There are no circumstance in which buying a life of idle luxury for an ex-partner fits to my income. Her idleness means my homelessness. I do not accept any argument that that is a just outcome for any reason - let alone her abondoning me.
- November 5th, 2009, 06:05 pm
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I've tried too many times already.

I am unable to afford two houses. I am unable to afford housing, utilities, et.al., for another household. I checked my paycheck and it's just as true now as it was five minutes ago.

There are no circumstance in which buying a life of idle luxury for an ex-partner fits to my income. Her idleness means my homelessness. I do not accept any argument that that is a just outcome for any reason - let alone her abondoning me.
Not once in that entire post did you mention your future son or daughter.

Your only concern was that your ex not be rewarded for leaving.
- November 5th, 2009, 06:10 pm
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Where in the world are you getting the idea that you would have to buy two houses and support two households? (Nobody here is even remotely suggesting that -- and that is certainly not what child support is for, or could even do).

Or, that the alternative to not having children is having to support a faithless ex-wife in idle luxury? These thought patterns seem so completely illogical to me. They certainly aren't based on factual data (hmmm....although it does make me wonder about your past experiences with abandonment...).
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Your only concern was that your ex not be rewarded for leaving.

No, my equal concern, in every post, is that I do not have the income to pay for two households.
- November 5th, 2009, 06:21 pm
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D_Lion wrote :
I've tried too many times already.

I am unable to afford two houses. I am unable to afford housing, utilities, et.al., for another household. I checked my paycheck and it's just as true now as it was five minutes ago.

There are no circumstance in which buying a life of idle luxury for an ex-partner fits to my income. Her idleness means my homelessness. I do not accept any argument that that is a just outcome for any reason - let alone her abondoning me.
Wow, so accepting child support automatically means the woman is going to be living in luxury? I think you better check your facts. Women fare worse economically than men do post-divorce.

And who says she will be idle? We're talking about child support, not alimony. That means she's still supporting herself. And, in most cases, even when they receive child support the cutodial parent continues to contribute to the raising of the child, both financially and through providing care for that child.
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No, my equal concern, in every post, is that I do not have the income to pay for two households.
And so you would expect the kids to not eat so you could make your car payment?

It's not their fault and it shouldn't be their punishment.

The point you're missing is that this is not money for the an abandoning spouse, it's money that would have been used to pay for the kids' expenses. You would have been paying it whether they were living with both parents, with you, or with your ex.
- November 5th, 2009, 06:26 pm
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D_Lion wrote :
I've tried too many times already.

I am unable to afford two houses. I am unable to afford housing, utilities, et.al., for another household. I checked my paycheck and it's just as true now as it was five minutes ago.

There are no circumstance in which buying a life of idle luxury for an ex-partner fits to my income. Her idleness means my homelessness. I do not accept any argument that that is a just outcome for any reason - let alone her abondoning me.
Who said anything about a life of idle luxury? We're talking about child support...merely making sure that if $X are needed to raise a child, then $(X/2) are being contributed by either partner.

As has already been pointed out, that's the theory anyway, in reality whomever has majority custody of the kids usually ends up bearing more than half the financial cost of raising the child anyway. Marrying someone, divorcing them, getting custody of the kids, and getting child support is a losing proposition as far as wealth acquisition is concerned. Your repeated statements about "paying for two households" are a straw man argument, no one is suggesting that.

Your attempts to paint this in such unrealistically stark terms....well, they certainly aren't the result and a dispassionate analysis from data.
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No, my equal concern, in every post, is that I do not have the income to pay for two households.
You would only be paying for two households if you had children with someone who has never worked and never plans on working. Since one of your dating criteria is economic parity, you will never be in that situation. You would simply go back to having separate housing costs as you did prior to co-habitation. The only difference would be that you'd be splitting the cost of raising any child(ren) you had together.
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Where in the world are you getting the idea that you would have to buy two houses and support two households? (Nobody here is even remotely suggesting that -- and that is certainly not what child support is for, or could even do).

Paying thousands of dollars per month to an ex-partner, nonimally as "child support," is in fact paying for her house. (Usually his house, while he is left depending on daddy or living in inappropriate, sub-standard housing.)

Since I do not have anybody to subsidize me, I would be homeless if any portion of my pay were taken. I consider this unjust.

Further, I continue to maintain that transfers should not take place to an ex-partner.

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This thread has really made me mad. I work hard, for very little; all of it is needed for my own, tenuous, survival. There is nothing left - let alone the majority of it - for paying an idle woman!

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Everyone who has attacked me, you have added to my conclusion, not undermined it.
- November 5th, 2009, 06:31 pm
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The point you're missing is that this is not money for the an abandoning spouse, it's money that would have been used to pay for the kids' expenses. You would have been paying it whether they were living with both parents, with you, or with your ex.
Actually, the point he's missing is that children are human beings and not possessions. The way he sees it, if his ex gets the porsche, he feels he shouldn't be responsible for the gas and maintenance of the vehicle he doesn't get to drive because they are no longer living together.
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