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When Stealing From Children Isn't Enough!

When stealing from the nation's children is not enough the often unsupervised and unaudited government employees resort to... more

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Child Support Clerk Charged With Embezzlement: More Government Corruption

The place is Meridian, Mississippi and the alleged crime is EMBEZZLEMENT. I have been covering stories surrounding the leeches... more

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Title IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Enforcement Money

That's right folks. A California Department of Child Support Services employee bilked the State Department of Child Support... more

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Child Support Worker Arrested in Bribery Scheme

According to Local6.Com another Child Support Worker was arrested, this time in Florida for bribing individuals that were involved... more

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Child Support Programs Lack Accountability Nationwide (Title IV-D Fails Needy)

You might remember the article that I wrote titled "When Stealing From Children Isn't Enough" and if you don't... more

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How would you like to follow the Title IV-D Money Machine?

The Title IV-D Money Machine can be seen by clicking the link below. You can see how the money flows through as long as you have... more

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Will Democrats Decrease Our Deficit?

Michigan Budget Crisis: The federal government has already cut funding for the child support enforcement program because... more

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The Weekly Standard Indicts CSE Title IV-D Welfare Program

Indentured Families
Social conservatives and the GOP: Can this marriage be saved?
by Allan Carlson
03/27/2006, Volume 011, Issue 26

IN THE INTERNAL POLITICS OF the Republican coalition, some members are consistently more equal than others. In particular, where the interests of the proverbial "Sam's Club Republicans" collide with the interests of the great banks, the Sam's Club set might as well pile into the family car and go home.

Consider, to take one recent instance, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, enacted last year, after a long delay, with support from congressional Republicans. A controversial clause that would have prevented abortion protesters from filing for bankruptcy to avoid paying court-ordered fines had stalled the measure. After the Senate rejected this provision, GOP leaders drove the bill through both houses of Congress and gained an enthusiastic signature from President George W. Bush.

In a nutshell, the new law makes a "clean start" after filing for bankruptcy much more difficult for families with at least one wage earner. Instead, most affected households will find themselves essentially indentured to a bank or credit card bureau, paying off their debt for years to come. "A new form of feudalism," one critic calls it.

In truth, some had abused the old law, turning repeated bankruptcy filings into a kind of circus. A tightening on this side probably made sense. Significantly, though, the new law made no real changes on the lenders' side, measures that might have reined in an increasingly predatory credit industry. It is common knowledge, for example, that credit card companies intentionally urge financially troubled families to borrow still more money, because they can charge these households exorbitant interest rates. As one Citibank executive has candidly observed, "They are the ones who provide most of our profit." Late payment fees, another favored industry device, reportedly deliver over 30 percent of credit card financing revenue. Assurances by lawmakers that the new law will bring credit card interest rates down fly in the face of these more fundamental corporate strategies.

True, in the context of America's new debt-driven economy, this treatment of financially troubled families may constitute "good business" (even if under older ethical standards it's the equivalent of offering a barrel of whiskey to an alcoholic). More fundamentally, though, the GOP's opting for an outcome that's good for Citibank's profits while disregarding the effects on families should cause no surprise.

Indentured Families Social conservatives and the GOP: Can this marriage be saved? by Allan Carlson 03/27/2006, Volume 011,... more

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Requesting Change: It's a Matter of Adminstration and Legislation

Requesting Change begins with holding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the intent of Title IV-D Welfare. ... more

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How Federal Welfare Funding Drives Judicial Discretion

Social Security, Welfare, and Child Support Enforcement
How federal welfare funding drives judicial discretion in child-custody determinations and domestic relations matters.

By Lary Holland and Jason Bottomley
February 2006

Introduction
There is a growing pandemic in this country where the very fabric of our society, the family, is being attacked and destroyed. Our children are systematically being torn away from willing and capable parents who want to be involved in parenting their children. Families are systematically being torn apart instead of being helped when they turn to the states' family courts to solve domestic relations disputes. This document demonstrates an attempt to trace this problem back to its source.

The topics and issues being discussed are quite complex because of the nature of the multiple welfare programs created within Title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA); so the authors have attempted to provide a simplified overview of how federal welfare funding motivates the state family court judges to remove a willful parent and create high child support orders.

The authors have spent a tremendous amount of time researching external economic factors that they believe drive judicial discretion and influence professional judgment in domestic relations matters. Through their research and experience, the authors have concluded that a relationship exists between the federal funding of state welfare programs and the determinations made by state family court judges presiding over child-custody and domestic relations matters. They believe that it is this relationship that de-emphasizes the importance of sharing parental responsibility, and instead emphasizes a manufactured public policy concerned only on the financial obligations of one parent - rather than on the real interests of the children involved.

The authors have also concluded that, while this relationship has successfully been masked behind what is commonly termed "the best interests of the child," the federal funding created within the Social Security Act provides clear monetary incentives to states that have a high-occurrence of one-parent households, where a child has the majority of access to only one of their parents. The authors believe that this "best interests of the child" standard is loosely subjective, gives unlimited discretion to state family court judges, and ultimately leaves a tremendous amount of room for abuse.

In simplest terms: State family courts are forcibly depriving children's access to a parent because it is a source of revenue for the states - and because they can.

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Teenage girls need their fathers

I don't want to talk to my daughter about sex. Ever. I just want to sit on the porch with a shotgun and chase the boys... more

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Child Support Clerk Charged With Embezzlement: More Government Corruption

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Title IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Enforcement Money

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Child Support Programs Lack Accountability Nationwide (Title IV-D Fails Needy)

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Will Democrats Decrease Our Deficit?

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