This is not about verbiage...my point is, these types of things have to be handled on a case-by-case basis, because all cases are different.
Therefore - it is recklessly irresponsible for @A Woman's Opinion to (under the guise of speaking for all women) to in effect allege that
"men get put on child support by women overall because of ______."
Oh I agree with you that there are certainly different situations and ideally different factors that should be taken into account.
Unfortunately if two people don't agree on what those case by case factors are or their importance there won t be an agreement,
If there's no agreement then a 3rd party steps in. The 3rd party has one set of guidelines for everyone. Does it take into account every families special circumstances? No. However it is uniform.
I am sure different people have different motives for pursuing a legal order of child support. Sometimes the person who files has no option due to recieving government aid. Sometimes it's because the relationship has soured in some way.
And yes
Sometimes it is absolutely for structure.
If both parties adhere to the court order there is more structure for mom dad and baby.
Even though it doesn't seem that way to those of you who are thinking of just $$ I advise all unmarried men to head right down to the courthouse and file on yourself from day 1.
Establish paternity legally if you haven't already. You're entitled to request a dna test do so.
Get custody set up. Get visitation set up. Get cs set up.
These fly by night handshake agreements with your baby mama or ex will only fukk you in the end. Have an agreement and give her cash every week? It's not court ordered? That's a gift.
On top of that depending on the state she can go back 3 years or any number of years no matter how much you "gifted" (and no your credit card statements where you bought pampers and sneakers and a stroller don't count either)
Is there a guarantee the non custodial parent will adhere any court order? No.
Ironically visitation rights are completely independent of cs payment and are to the benefit of the NON custodial parent.
Whether you pay your support or not you cannot be denied your visitation.
Don't want to take your visitation? That's fine too.
A custodial parent who denies visitation is the strongest way that the non custodial parent can gain more or total custody.
No more baby mamma saying you can't take little Malcolm this weekend cause she saw what that other chick posted on your Facebook page. If she does call the police with your visitation order in hand.
Document it whenever she tries to interfere with your visitation time.
Drag her ass right back to court.
No she can't just willy nilly relocate to Atlanta with her new boo and take your child with no input from you.
All of these things are benefits to the non custodial parent of having an actual court order.
It's hard to get 2 people to agree to anything completely.
The family court system is not perfect, there are improvements needed
For now, it's what we have.
You can try to use the exsist system to your best advantage or howl at the moon of the unfairness of it all
