Is alimony and child support a form of slavery?

Question

Well in most cases in regards to child support the money is blindly taken from one person and given to another through threat of force. And there is no accountability how the money is spent.

(Also in the scenerio where there not married, women have ultimate say if they want a child so there level of responsibility should reflect that. More rights=more responcibility)

Answer 1

Yes while you should support your own flesh and blood its something you should do voluntarily and not because ure forced to.

Answer 2

Its the boinkin you get for the boinkin you got. Sorry Pal pay up like the rest of us did.

Answer 3

certainly is

if women are going to be given all the rights regarding child rearing, then they should at least have to take the responsibilities also

if you don't want to have a child pop out of you, don't drop your knickers so easily.

Answer 4

Paying for your responsibilities? No, it's not a form of slavery, it's called being an adult.

Answer 5

An the alternative would be us, the good old tax payers paying? How can having unportected s*x with someone, creating a life = slavery having to pay for it?  

Answer 6

You make child support sound just like the Republican plunder paradigm:  Take money blindly from one person (taxes) and give it to another person (Republican pork barrel piggy-fests / no-bid contracts / Halliburton / arms dealers / Good Ole Boys and Cronies / etc. through threat of force (IRS).  And there is no accountability for how the money is spent.  lol

Radical feminism strives to bring that system down.  Vote for feminists for public office and we'll restructure our entire society, I promise, so that the system isn't so screwed up anymore and so that truly supporting children comes before male self-serving entitlements.  For example, I would support a national tax paid only by men to cover the enormous cost of paying for supporting the percentage of children of dead-beat dads and a national tax paid only by women for supporting the percentage of children of dead-beat mothers.  Surely that would be appealing to those who have "issues" about parental accountability running along "gender" lines.

And, I would support a law that requires working spouses to pay in wage withholdings into a public account monthly the equivalent of domestic or at least current minimum wages to be distributed nationally in monthly support after divorce in lieu of alimony to spouses who stayed home and provided supportive services for the working paid spouse without getting paid for their work (slavery).  We could call it the "Spousal Slave Tax".

Answer 7

no, not even close.  Slavery is an institution people were forced into, with no choice in the matter what so ever.   Nobody is forced to marry someone and then divorce.  No one is forced to father children.  Those children are however the responsibility of their parents and therefore, parents are required to support them because the children cannot support themselves.  Those situations are not slavery, they are consequences of poor choices.

Answer 8

No, it is simply holding a person accountable for a decision made in prior years, regardless of present circumstances.

Answer 9

absolutely. Its all part of that nasty feminist plot to control the world by subjecting all men to their hideous form of slavery.

Answer 10

Let me look at it like this.  Suppose I'm divorced; and my husband got soul custody of the kids and I was facing the very question you have just posted.  Yeah, I, my ego, would feel like a slave; here I am, funds are low, I'm doing all I can and all they want is money.  Well, at the present time I don't have the money. I'm working two or three jobs to make ends meet; I've cut back so much that my rations are a chicken wing a night for my supper; here I am showing every intention that I intend on paying and start making a dent in my back pay;to find out it isn't good enough.  Yeah, I would feel like a slave.  I won't accept that I should have never got pregnant c**p; when I got married it was supposed to be for keeps in the first place; till death do us part. Well, nowadays they should say till divorce do us part.

Answer 11

Maybe alimony, I don't believe anyone  should be supported financially after separation, but child support, h**l No! you assisted in creating those children, there for you should financially support in raising them.

Now bare in mind that women have been forced to pay alimony as well. Comedian/actress Mo'nique is a prime example of a woman who had to give up half of her earnings and pay check to a former husband. You can goggle that it you don't believe me.

Answer 12

No but i'll tell you something, Alimony is the biggest load I've ever heard of. Why should a man have to support his ex-wife? Because women aren't dependent, nor are they able to take care of themselves w/out a man's help. I say alinmony is unconstitutional. How are the courts gonna tell you how you can spend your money that you work your a.ss off to make?

Answer 13

No more than taxes.

Answer 14

It's more like being a man.