Doing the Math

According to a government estimate, the average cost for a middle-income family in the U.S. to raise a child born in 2008 will be $291,570. (TIME, 08/17/09) Without having researched, my educated guess is that the average child support judgment enforced by this office is in the neighborhood of $300 per child per month. So, if child support payments began immediately at birth (which they don’t) and were paid in full (which they are not) the absent parent’s contribution would total $64,800.00, or twenty-two percent of the estimated total. Hmmm. Let’s hear it for good old American values. A very conservative estimate of the number of children served by this office alone is 127,500, and it is high time that we do away with abortion and gay marriage so that this number will become more like it should be. My friends, the truth is that we have heterosexuals reproducing like little bunnies all across the country, and we haven’t even begun to count the cost to us all.