This brings up a good discussion on society's level of responsibility for children.
He made 'em, he pays for 'em. The state should have nothing to do with it other than forcing him to pay his obligations.
[...]He's generated enough of a drain on the system that he'd better not receive a single dime of state support beyond what the law mandates he receive.
While I fully agree with the sentiment, it's quite likely he's unable to pay for his children. Which leaves us in a spot, doesn't it? It might seem righteous and justified to simply leave him to the wind, but of course it's not just him that suffers for it, but thirty children as well.
A better question: how do we avoid this sort of thing from happening altogether? Any 'forced' contraception/medical-procedure ideas to be mandated by the State are scary concepts. What's the alternative?
This dude is an absolutely irresponsible asshole. You simply aren't a man if you don't put food in your child's stomach, a roof over their head and clothes on their back.
Agreed! Though the mothers aren't exactly shining beacons either (not to say that you were implying they were). Everybody in this situation's showing a severe lack of judgement. Which...when the consequences are yours and yours alone, I have no problem with. I get a kick out of reading the Darwin Awards, because it's morons only hurting themselves. Throw children into the equation though and things stop being simple real quick. Without the right support, these kids are likely to be the prime sort to be shooting someone over some drug money sixteen-eighteen years down the line.
I don't know what the laws are in Tenn. but up here they seize cars and shit, seize wages, but if you're a deadbeat not a whole lot they can do.
...and the taxpayer's left with the bill. Not good! But it'd be worse than leaving the kids high and dry. Prevention's the solution here, but what's the best prevention (State-mandated castration? It's got an attractive appeal when reading stories like this...)?
And with all that unprotected sex how isn't he dying from AIDS?
He quite possibly could be. Could be passing it to the most recent born, even.
