My daughter is 11 years old now, she has not seen or heard from her father sense she was two. The day he walked out of her life was the day I told him that she was not a shiny new toy that he could take around his new girl friends and then drop off and not see until the next time he got a girl friend. I told him either in on a regular basis or out. So he chose out. That was his choice but I was not going to assume complete financial responsibility. He will and still should pay his child support. He had not ever sent regular payments and now he was sending nothing. It was many years before the child support office located him again. Something that should have been easy took years. He is now over $17000 behind in his support payments. I have contacted the child support office several times to check on the status. Finally they once again located him this past May. He has sent in one payment a month and not the full amount he is supposed to pay. The child support office tells me that as long as he makes a payment there is nothing they can do. Really! One payment of 200. is what I am getting. This doesn't even cover one bill let alone a portion of everything. So now I have 200. a month for the last two months. So far he hasn't sent in a payment this month. If he doesn't they will start sending him letters... Well that should make him start paying! In my opinion, he should be put in jail for evading his child support obligation. Its bad enough he walked out on his own child. Even worse he tried to replace her by getting a 16 year old girl pregnant. But I guess that was for her parents to take care of and deal with now. But he should be obligated to pay on time each month. Not whenever he is tracked down and the money is taken out of his check by the agency. I work hard to provide my child with a life that I feel she deserves. She still talks about her father. She doesn't have one and wishes so much that she did. She still cries and I do not doubt she will have issues when she gets older. My question is, why is it acceptable for a man or woman to leave their child and have no contact with them and not support them financially. Why do we not have stronger laws to protect what is most precious, our future. I have done all that I can do. I tell her that I love her and will NEVER leave her.
