From: Subject: Starving Dads for Dollars Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:07:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0050_01CA8EE1.E8124E20" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0050_01CA8EE1.E8124E20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.facenj.org/aboutface/00q2/starve2.html =EF=BB=BF Starving Dads for Dollars

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Starving Dads for Dollars

by Stuart A. Miller and Gregory J. Palumbo, Ph.D. , April = 2000



In the new Child Support Report, the official newsletter of the = federal=20 Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), it was announced that a new = program=20 is underway, which some humanitarian groups in Washington have dubbed, = "Starving=20 Dads for Dollars". This program prevents poor fathers from receiving = food=20 stamps. In addition to extorting money from relatives and friends of = fathers who=20 cannot afford to pay child support, OCSE expects to save $25 million in = costs to=20 the food-stamp program by kicking poor fathers off of the program if = they cannot=20 afford to pay child support.

There are many problems with this new federal policy of which one is = that=20 many fathers who qualify for food stamps are the custodial parents of = their=20 children. They owe child support already in many states for Medicaid = received by=20 the mother while pregnant, for birth, and care of the neonate. Gender is = important because mothers are not held liable for pregnancy costs by law = if=20 poor, a big loophole.

The increase in father-headed single-parent households with children = under 18=20 living in poverty is no small problem. The increase has been dramatic = according=20 to Census figures. Whereas in 1975 there were 65,000 of these families, = there=20 were 412,000 in 1996, and there are even more today.

In Oklahoma, soon poor custodial parent dads will also find = themselves hungry=20 because they are classified as deadbeat because they are dead broke. = Senate Bill=20 1336 by Senator Bernest Cain will do just this by making fathers = responsible for=20 prenatal and birthing costs, and it already passed out of the Senate = Judiciary=20 committee unopposed. Oklahoma will be just like other states that will = now be=20 able to starve custodial parent fathers who are unfortunate enough to be = poor=20 and have custody of their children.

You think there are other alternatives available for these dads? Well = it gets=20 worse. Currently, all 50 states are required by OCSE to confiscate = hunting and=20 fishing licenses from fathers who cannot afford to pay child support to = make=20 sure that they cannot legally hunt or catch food to eat. This new = program will=20 close some of the loopholes that allow these deadbeat and dead broke = dads to=20 continue to eat and feed their children.

In conjunction with this effort, OCSE is pushing to lower the $5000 = child=20 support arrears threshold for passport revocation to $2500. Officials = are=20 optimistic that lowering the threshold will halt the flood of poor = fathers=20 trying to escape to countries that might allow them to eat.

Other new programs have also been announced such as President = Clintons=20 initiative to allow poor mothers to drive expensive cars and still = receive food=20 stamps. This is already the law in Oklahoma. Officials denied that the=20 Presidents new initiative would in any way dampen the agencys efforts to = publicly humiliate poor fathers by putting pink and blue boots on their = cars,=20 with big stickers on the windshield labeling them as deadbeat dads. "Its = just=20 like putting these deadbeat dads in stocks in the public square," said = one=20 commentator. Now not only can these poor dads not eat, but they cannot = work=20 either.

Under the Clinton administration, OCSEs budget has more than doubled, = going=20 from $2 billion to over $4 billion per year. Yet, when asked why OCSE = keeps=20 adding more penalties to a program that has failed to increase child = support=20 collections in welfare cases by more than 1% since 1975 (hint: research = shows=20 the dads are as poor as the moms), it was quickly pointed out that all = the=20 benefits of its programs have not been fully appreciated. For instance, = in Los=20 Angeles County alone in 1998, OCSE was getting child support orders in = place=20 against nearly 4000 men per year for children that were not theirs. We = do that=20 too in Oklahoma.

And by the way...more and more mothers are finding themselves in the = same=20 boat as fathers. Maybe it is time to evaluate these tax policies that = flow from=20 Washington, D.C.

Stuart Miller is a federal lobbyist and Senior Legislative Analyst = for the=20 American Fathers Coalition in Washington, DC. He may be reached at=20 smiller@capaccess.org. Dr. Gregory J. Palumbo is Executive Director of=20 Oklahomans for Families Alliance in Oklahoma City.

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