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by notch656a 1433 days ago
>So, you gave her everything but the freedom to get out of the house and the freedom

No she spent pretty much the entire day out of the house pursuing her goals while I financed it and took care of the kid on top of that.

> it means your children live in part-time poverty

That's what child support is for, for the child to have money even if the parent does not. Also, alimony is a thing even for people without kids. If the father goes into poverty to pay child support nobody gives a fuck, even if that means the child ends up living in part time poverty with the father. You'll hear judges impugn people paying child support all the time because they didn't pay it while eating and putting gas in their car, somebody posted a video here of a judge doing that.