Australian courts get it!  Their Country gets it!  The United States family courts not only don't get it, but they purposefully ignore local laws to create their own form of justice.  We are talking about child support payments being forced upon men who are not the parent of the children they are paying support for.  In Australiea, mothers are now being forced to pay back ten's of thousands of dollars in child support they received fraudulently.  They are being held accountable for their fraud!

It happens all over the country, a woman goes to court asking for child support for an illegitimate child, naming a father who hasn't been proven to be the father.  This happens because the Title IV-D funding the States receive stat that a father must be named, or the mother loses benefits.  When benefits for free-loaders are about to be lost, they have no problem putting the name of a father down - right or wrong. 

The next step is to get that father into court, and when they can't find him, they mail it to an address where they have been told he lives, right or wrong.  When there is no response, a default order is placed naming him the father, and the collectons begin.  The process, which totally lacks due process is the result of a money grab by the States for Federal Funds under Title IV-D.

Australia's Government is beginning to use due process, and protect the rights of its citizens.  It is going after mothers who falsely imprison a man for 18 years of child support for a child that is not his.  Imagine if we could rely on the same from our own courts.  Imagine if we had real due process.  Imagine in our States weren't in the business to earn revenue from the feds by doing child support collections, and instead looked after the best interest of all citizens.

Read the article from Australia that describes their new process.  It's a great story.

I recently read a story out of Washington where Prosecutors were disappointed that a father that had been proven not to be the father of a child was not going to have to pay child support.  In other words, these calous theives didn't care if it was the correct father, as long as they had someone paying the child support for 18 years, they were upset that the wrong man who was going to pay it was no longer on the hook.  You would think they would have been thrilled that justice was served, after all they are supposed to be members of our hired government, hired to protect the innocent.  Instead, they don't care how innocent you are, as long as you pay the child support bill they need paid so this mother can get back on welfare.

The thing here is that a child may never know their real father.  The gross negligence of this mother picking anyone to ensure they continue to collect from the government, potentially keeps a child from knowing their true identity, and the father that could make a difference in their life.

So, as we go into 2009 with the author of the biased Violence Against Women's Act as our new Vic-President, and a new President who's only claim to families was to scold fathers for not being responsible, we can only wonder how things will worsen for fathers, and non-custodial parents.  Can anyone really see it improving?  Certainly not, unless everyone gets involved in writing lettes, blogging, leaving comments on blogs, telling neighbors about the issues families deal with or anything else to help our cause, things will only worse for all of us........