Monday, August 25, 2014

Child Supportless

Riddle me this...
How can a man shoot a deer on private property, be charged with a felony, have it dropped to a misdemeanor and be sentenced to 100 hours of community service, but can evade paying child support for thirteen years and nothing happens to him.
Since when did it become a crime more punishable, and don't get mad at me, I'm not saying that an animal deserved to die, I'm simply saying why is the punishment for shooting an animal during hunting season on private property more offensive than not supporting a child.
The Texas Jackass AKA Wyatt's father, shot a deer on his neighbors property in Texas last hunting season and was charged by the game department. His county court moved his case through in less than six months and had him tried, sentenced and out the door.
My case?
Thirteen years.

We were married and divorced in Washington State.
He moved to Texas, I moved to Oregon.
Washington still has our child support case because he fishes one month out of the year in Alaska on a boat that is licensed in Washington. None of the states involved will pursue action against him because someone was born in, married in, divorced in, lives in, works in or floats in another state.
It's all the other guys problem.
Why isn't child support connected via those little fiber optic lines state to state?
I guarantee you if I had a Verizon bill and moved from Kansas to Kentucky they would pursue me, so why can't an agency that is designed to look after the well being of a child do the same?

And, this bigger question is, what kind of loser gene is twisted into a persons DNA that excludes them from remorse for not contributing to the care of their own child. I'm not saying I'm the only parent with this problem and I'm not even insinuating that it's only a mother trouble because it isn't. People walk away from the responsibility of children every day, I get that, but it's the how that I don't get, and it's also the how I continually chose those people to father my children.
Anyway, I'm sorry for yelling, it just makes me so angry.

I ran out of my water pills and didn't think it was a big deal until I gained six pounds in seven days. It will probably take a week to get back to normal and in the mean time I can't be more than twelve steps from a bathroom.
Heart patient problems.

I dipped my foot in the wheat pool with homemade pizza and cinnamon rolls this week.
Every joint in my body is crying. I'm not gluten intolerant, I'm wheat sensitive and I hate even saying that out loud because it's such a hipster syndrome, but the fact is, Pop-Tarts and pizza turn me into an old woman hobbling around in a housecoat. I'm serious, and "they" say there are certain foods that cause inflammation and that wheat is one of them and I believe "them" because I get the old lady arthritis when I eat wheat. That doesn't mean I can't eat ice cream.

Wyatt got his back to living room school haircut yesterday.
Tradition is the glue of a civilized society.

Peas.

1 comment:

  1. Sorry to hear you've had such problems. It blows my mind how this country has such stupid priorities. Hope the health settles back down.

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