When you get divorced and have children, most parents don’t feel like they receive enough financial support, if any. If you aren’t fully taking care of a child, then you use have to pay for the other person to take care of your child. It is calculated by your adjusted gross income. The judge can take into any other bones, tips, any other forms income to determine the amount being paid to the primary caretaker of that child. Every state determines the amount of the child support payment, it can change depending on health issues the child may have and the circumstances. There are two factors that determine how much you could possibly pay 1. Your income 2. The amount of time you spend with the child. Once the account has been set, it is hard to change. But it’s more important to pay the bill than not because your work waged could be garnished or you could go to jail if you don’t pay your expenses. payment s includes other factor besides just basic necessities. They determine whether your primary parent live, cost of living, medical attention, schooling, etc. It is recommended you keep record of payments being made because there is a chance they won’t pay and that may result in a court case.
In this chapter we talked about family so I thought it would be important to talk about single parenting, divorce rates and children. In figure 12.2 it shows that in 2016 10.8% of people are single parents, and there are 48.2% married couples. Studies show that young mothers are more likely to assess welfare because they don’t have the funds to take care of a child on their own. This ties into the article because when the other figure in the relationship isn’t paying their dues to not only provide the basic needs of a child but anything else they need the mother often works harder to support the child, pay court bills, and sometimes they cannot do it without help from our government. A belief that women only had children to receive welfare benefits is false, it shows women have children for the sense of belonging and to be values. This is interesting because many women want to be valued and obviously there aren’t in the relationships they’re in, so when they have a child they receive that that looking up to them and to feel needed. The studies show single-parent households vary by race. In 2016, 22% of white children were living with a single parent while 55% of black children were living with one parent.
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