Do you think there should be a fund for child support of children whose parent is either on death row or life?

Question

I think it is very messed up how the government has all this money for the war and all this money to spend on other unnecessary things, but women who can never get child support have no alternatives. The social security administration gives checks to parents whose child/children have ADHD and children whose parent have passed away but not to the children whose parents are never going to leave the prison system or if they do it will be to death.

LOOK THIS IS FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE. PLENY OF WOMEN OR MEN AND CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE ONE OF THE PARENTS WENT AND DID SOMETHING STUPID AND TO STUPID PEOPLE LIKE TMARIE. YOU WOULD RATHER SUPPORT THIS NOT NEEDED WAR.

LOOK DUMB IDIOTS OUT THERE WHO TELL PEOPLE TO GET JOBS. YOU DUMB ASSES. I MYSELF AND OTHER WOMEN HAVE JOBS. MY SON HAS A FATHER BUT IT IS JUST SOMETHING YOU THINK ABOUT. I SIT AND WATCH ALL THESE MF'S WASTE MONEY ON THE WRONG ****. DO ALL OF YOUR STUPID SELVES EVEN KNOW WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES. SURE IN HELL DOES NOT GO TO HELP ALL THOSE IN NEED. I LIVE IN DALLAS WHERE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR SPENDING FUNDS IN NOT NEEDED WAYS LIKE ON PERSONAL ITEMS. THAT IS TAX PAYERS MONEY. BELIEVE ME I DONT LIKE THE IDEA OF TAKING CARE OF SOME SORRY MF IN JAIL EITHER BUT I ALSO DONT LIKE SUPPORTING TROOPS WHO ARE DYING FOR NO REASON AND SPENDING MONEY TO HELP REBUILD A COUNTRY THAT IS NOT OURS. SOME OF YOU DUMMYS NEED TO GO AND SEE SICKO BECAUSE YOU ARE BLIND AS HELL AND NEED GLASSES THE SIZE OF THE FRONT END OF AN OLD SCHOOL BUICK TO SEE WHAT IS REAL. ALL AMERICA CARES ABOUT IS IDOLIZING CELEBRITIES. CHILDREN ARE THE LEAST BIT OF THIS WORLDS CONCERN.

Answer 1

No joking - the custodial parents have the ability to apply for Aide, if they qualify. In addition, your theory is slightly flawed... because once the death penalty is carried out, the social security you mentioned becomes active.

In any case, it's unfortunate when one parent makes bad choices that negatively affect their children and the custodial parents. Whether this is a felony conviction, a drug habit, or the inability to maintain employment - the effect is the same.

I agree that there should be more focus on the needs of children and families in our own country, instead of many places our tax money is going now. However, I personally resent the idea that one family is more deserving of Aide than another, simply because their NCP is a worse human being. That doesn't fly with me.

Perhaps a work program within the prison system which mandates certain inmates to work, and then forwards the earned income on to the families you describe, would be an alternative idea.

Answer 2

First, social security for children with special needs is extremely difficult to get even for children with severe health issues. Kids with ADHD and autism almost never qualify. Disability payments for minors are based mainly on the total income of the household...in most areas, any family of 4 with an income over $30,000 will not qualify. Social security death benefits for minors are paid from the social security the deceased parent has paid into the system. A child whose parent did not work will not get much of anything. And, even if the parent did work full time for many years, the maximum benefit paid is only about $500 per child...usually not nearly enough to make up for the lost income from the parent.

I agree there are many children out there with a parent who made a bad choice and is now spending the majority of thier life in prison. It does make life hard for that child, without a doubt. However, in reality, that is no different than the reality faced by single parents or families that have been faced with financial hardships resulting from either fate or bad choices. My husband and I have face tough financial times. Some resulted from poor choices ( a failed business) others from things beyond our control (being laid off from my job at the same time our daughter was seriously injured). We have had to find ways to meet our financial obligations on our own, taking responsibility for our lives. I honestly don't think this is any different for the child of a parent in jail. There is another parent or adult in the child's life. There are services avialble if the family can not afford health care (most states provide health care for minors if the family can not), meals (free lunches in school, which many schools now try to provide in the summer as well) and other assitance programs. These are available to everyone who qualifies, regardless of why or what brought about the need.

Answer 3

Listen, taxpayer dollars are paying to house those criminals, now we are supposed to support the kids they left behind? Give us a break already, if they cared about their kids, they would not have committed the crime that they are in for. Why on this earth should the taxpayer be responsible for kids of criminals? This is ridiculous.

If you or someone you know needs help supporting their kids because of this, here's an idea, do what everyone else does, GET A JOB!

EDIT: You are calling us dumb? HA! Look Missy, I raised a daughter on my own with no support from anyone but myself. So you know where you can go. Ever hear of a work ethic, hell, how about ever hear of work at all? Don't like working, do what any other scumbag would do and hitch a ride on the government gravy train!

If you can't support your children, you should have thought of that before you had them.

One point I do agree with is the money could be put to better use. And that goes for all the dollars we send to third world countries as well when we have plenty of our own troubles here.

And what about the Katrina victims, they are still digging out of crap and everyone has seemed to have forgotten.

OH and while you're at it, why don't you poll the victims families and see what they think of your idea.

Answer 4

If the mother has legal custody of the child, it wont matter. She can basically chalk it up to living expenses for the child when he is with his grandmother, possibly to go to school in that district. The same applies to who claims the child on their taxes. The mother, if she has full legal custody, has the right to let whomever she wants to claim the child I always thought it was totally unfair for a person to pay child support and not be able to claim the child on their taxes ever. I've seen a guy get it in his divorce decree that he and his ex took turns claiming the child on their taxes. Now, about the child support payments the state actually has charge over that. When a person gets welfare and gets child support, the child support payments go to the state, to reimburse the state for medicaid (state medical insurance) as well as welfare monies paid on the child's behalf. The only thing your husband can do is try to get custody. The custodial parent has all of the rights.

Answer 5

No, I too don't think there should be a child support fund. Even if we weren't at war in Iraq, that money would have been diverted to other things. What you're asking won't happen because we have enough social programs that taxpayers fund already. Too many on welfare who shouldn't be. Sorry, but it's not up to the government to pick up the slack for poor parental skills and stupidity. You're upset because you expected sympathetic responses and you didn't get any. You ask a question, you need to be prepared for the answers you get instead of being upset. Yeah, the parent in prison should be forced to work somehow to earn even a little bit for his or her children, but to ask society to pick up the slack, no.

Answer 6

i see where you coming from..and you have a very good point...just because the father of the child/children is in prison for any number of reason that doesn't mean that child should be left in the dark...just as you stated the government has plenty of money which is being thrown around for silly reason..your reason is a reasonable one in my eyes...it shouldn't matter what the person did to end up in jail it should only matter that their children are being taken care of...its hard for those single mothers out..so that little help would change a life for sure..

Answer 7

No, I do not. Unfortunately, the child's father created the problem and the mother will just have to get a second job to support her kids. It is no different than if the father just walked off and never paid child support. She's just stuck. Note: in my state, she is still eligible to get aid from the state for the children if her income is low.

Answer 8

Nope, why should the rest of us pay for mistakes that people make when they originally had a choice.

It pays to think about who you marry and have babies with, that's also a choice!!

Answer 9

Nope. It's not MY job to support the kids YOU spawned before you broke the law.

Someone who disagrees with you is not "stupid", "dumb", or "idiot". If you can't deal with disagreement YOU will end up in prison, wondering who's supporting the kids you were stupid enough to create with no sense of how to behave properly.

Answer 10

well there should be a little help for someone is that situation for all the people who are like you should have known better etc, plenty of serial killers were known as nice respectable men! when they weren't killing someone, people who knew them thought they were normal!!