If you are children of divorce, how many of you got the child support money?

Question

that wasnt spent torwards your upkeep when you became of age, assuming your mom (or dad) got a lot of child support, like 1500+ a month.

Answer 1

My father never paid one cent of child support and got away with it.

Answer 2

There was never any extra.

Answer 3

Money is not what child support should be about.  There should be a way to force a man to own up to being a "Dad".  That way what the child needed, he/she got.  But it isn't that way.  Money doesn't make up for the broken heart that children feel when a parent disappears.

Answer 4

I think that the mother and father should get 50/50 custody of the kids so know one has to pay support.

Answer 5

My father paid child support for a period of time but then he got into partying and forgot about us.  He didn't spend time with us and he was too busy with spending money on gold diggers half he age and he still is.  Many women look at my father as a surrogate  and that upsets me because he had kids and he disappeared on/disappointed them.  This has seriously affected my feelings towards him as a person but not other men.  Another man stepped in and was similar to a father he kept us feed and a roof over our head but it put a strain on the relationship he had with our mom.  If it wasn't for him who knows where we would have ended up.  By the way my father lived in the same town and got 50/50 custody rights but decided not to use them as it took time away from his other girls.

Answer 6

I got child support for my oldest son and there were times when the money was spent for his up keep but when he got older I was doing better financially and I used the money to buy him a car and pay his insurance.

Answer 7

Well, my mom put my money in a college fund for me, and she made sure that I was able to do all of the (expensive) extra-carricular activities I wanted to do, camp, vacations (Disney World), etc. She also made sure we had nice clothes. we were extremely picky, lol.

Looking back, I really appreciate the job my mom did trying to raise us on her own. I'm going to call her now, lol.

Answer 8

Well, upkeep is expensive. I know my mom used every bit of the money for me, when my dad actually paid it.

Answer 9

My Dad lied and didnt have to pay for a while. Then later he was forced to pay so they just take the money from his account. and he owes us more than 10k in child support and he's trying to get out off paying. child support isnt even a lot. they only make them pay the minimum to survive but they dont account for school functions, sports, accidents, etc.

Answer 10

Every child that got to live in the house that the child support paid for, and ride in the car that the child support paid for got the child support.  Anybody have to sleep in the doghouse as a child?