Some days I read a post like Good Idea- If They Can’t Afford Their Child Support, Take Their Jobs on Glenn Sacks blog, and I feel grateful for others that care, but hopeless at the same time. How does one continue to write day after day, to speak out week after week against such seemingly insurmountable odds? It gets tiring to say the least. Then, throw on top of the heap the MIS-perception that all father’s rights activists are anti-feminist, and it just gets murkier. Reminds me of the movie 300. The few against the many. Sadly, there is all of this resistance to something so beneficial- fathers who want to be a meaningful part of their children’s lives. What a crime? The horror. The horror.

Sacks’ post deals with preliminary approved Kansas legislation that would suspend professional licenses of father’s that are behind on their child support. What a ridiculous solution to problem! Are their fathers that don’t pay but have the means to pay. Yes, there are. I had one growing up. Are there divorced fathers that are down on their luck? Are their divorced fathers that are being required by an unjust court system to pay an insanely large portion of their income- a portion so high that most reasonable people would scoff at it? You bet there are. I’ve even blogged about my own experience with the lopsided child support issue. How, then, does this anti-father legislation help these fathers catch up? How does it help the ex-wife or the child? It doesn’t. It perpetuates the problem. Kansas law makers apparently have a fire, and the brilliant solution they came up with for battling it is a 5-gallon drum of gasoline. Bravo! Way to waste more taxpayers’ money.

Epidemic. This is the word I keep coming back to on a regular basis, because it’s the only one I can think of that adequately describes the problem. Destructive. Widespread. Deadly. How many more days, weeks, and years are going to have to pass before this world decides that Divorced Dads do, in fact, Matter?