No More Children for Deadbeat Dad, Court Says

[KillerMuffin]

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=112557

MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A father of nine imprisoned for refusing to pay child support will be barred from having any more children for five years unless he changes his ways, Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

The divided court turned down an appeal of the unusual sentence, which prohibited David Oakley -- who fathered his children with four different women -- from having more children during his five-year probationary period.

Having served a sentence for not paying more than $25,000 in child support, Oakley could be returned to prison to serve out a suspended six-year term if he fathers another child.

The four-judge majority reasoned that if Oakley had been ordered to spend the six years in prison, that would made it difficult for him to father children anyway.

Citing the crisis created by "deadbeat parents" that has relegated many children to poverty because of the chronic failure of many fathers to fulfill their obligations, the court upheld Oakley's 1999 sentence.

Dissenting Judge Ann Bradley said the sentence violated the "basic human right" to have children.


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Thoughts? Opinions? Discussions?

 

[crystalhunting]

Any boy can father a child,but it takes a man to raise and/or support a child....it's all a point of responsibility.

I don't know about jail time for this "boy"....but he obviousley like to play....but NOT PAY.






CH

 

[stargazer76]

Crystal...couldn't have said it better myself. It amazes me how many men with children have yet to grow up enough to support and raise those children. Shirking responsibility doesn't make you a real man.

 

[cactiphile]

Emm, unless they make him have a vasectomy or lock him
in prison how they going to enforce it?

ANother question, why do slackers/deadbeats etc
seem to breed like crazy 4- 10 kids. While
hardworking people only on average raise 1-2 children?

c.

 

[stargazer76]

Cactiphile....maybe because slackers/deadbeats don't give any thoughts to the consequences of their actions. They don't take responsibility anyway, so what difference would it make to them if they had 5 kids or 50?

 

[cactiphile]

It's actually something I woryy about in evolutionary terms.

The problem being slackers breed more quickly and their children
on the whole tend to be slackers. Soon you have a very
outnumbered hardworking responsible population.
Damn I think its already happened in the UK.

On a more long term scale, use the same equation on intelligence.
A person has a 50% change of rpoducing a child with the same
intelligence, 25% of lower, 25% of higher. So due to the fact that bright people have less children than dumb ones, the human race slowly gets thicker as a whole and de-evolves in terms of intelligence.

But then again I worry about lots of strange things, like what will
happen when the sun goes nova, and with the universe bang or bust.

C.