And my question at that time was, hasn't this idiot ever heard of condoms? After giving birth to your third child, haven't you proved your virility enough such that you can now get a vasectomy or start using a condom so you can stop impregnating your women friends?
And of course the women must bear the brunt of the blame. If you're not married to the guy, why are you having unprotected sex with him? Are you deliberately trying to get pregnant so you'll have someone to keep you in luxury for the rest of your life?
And that is what I dont understand. When these basketball players are playing, obviously they make a ton of money, so the judges can set their child support payments pretty high.
But once they stop playing..surely the amount of money they must pay should be lessened! How can you expect a guy making nothign a year to continue to pay $2,000 a month child support, especially since he's probably blown all the millions he earned as a player.
Of course it's not just athletes. I remember reading about William Shatner, midway through Star Trek. He was getting a divorce, his soon to be ex wife was getting tons of money - and he was living in his car. Now that's not right!
And that brings me to the point of this post. Seems that:
Former NBA player and University of Florida standout Vernon Maxwell has been jailed in north Florida.
Alachua County authorities jailed Maxwell on Wednesday for violation of probation charges related to failing to pay child support, according to online jail records. A message left with a sheriff's office spokesman was not immediately returned.
During his 13-year NBA career, Maxwell helped the Houston Rockets win NBA titles in 1994 and 1995. Maxwell, a three-time all-Southeastern Conference selection, played at Florida from 1985-88.
Maxwell's attorney, Robert Rush, said child support payments were set when Maxwell was still a professional athlete and he can no longer meet the financial demands.
Rush called the matter a "sad and a recurring problem."
This is the significant point:
>>Maxwell's attorney, Robert Rush, said child support payments were set when Maxwell was still a professional athlete and he can no longer meet the financial demands.
Well then, my question is, why doesn't a judge lessen those payments to be a percentage of the money he is making now? It certainly isn't fair to make the guy continue to pay NBA-level child support when he isn't making NBA level money!
Should he be punished forever for his stupidity in having unprotected sex with a woman who got pregnat just so she could have a free meal ticket for the rest of her life? Let us not forget that 70% of all black children born, are born out of wedlock. And most of those kids are not born to men who are making NBA kind of money to begin with...
And let us not also forget that while the percentage of white girls and women giving birth out of wedlock was only 30%, that percentage grew faster than that of blacks and Latinos (50%).
Now, it's only common sense. If you don't have a stable family unit - whether it be hubby and wife, or hubby and hubby or wife and wife, depending on one' sexual orientation, then the kids are not going to be well off financially because a single person - especially one who is uneduated and on welfare herself - cannot take care of kids properly.
Which is why we get teen violence, and gangs, and half the population of the country in jail at one time or another - mostly for drug use. And now that doing jail time has become a "right of passage" for black Americans, that problem is only going to escalete, because no matter how sweet and simply misguided a kid is before he goes to jail, he's going to come out soiled and resentful and full of hate... and not towards the people he should be hating - the baby momma and the baby daddy who had him even though they couldnt afford him...
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