[liamwire]

If the alternative is that your kids go cold instead, let me be the first to offer you a match.

[immibis]

And what should that child do for warmth, when both of their parents are dead?

[ty6853]

Taxpayer. First for welfare, then the prison. Maybe that's the point, remove the father from the kids life, subtract enough money he can never fully stand back up, dad is now broke and out the picture and the kid without money or a fatherly role model. More fodder for gangs, the prison system, and exploited manual labor.