07/22/2024
For many years, we have talked about how our black families are being torn apart. We talk about the broken black family over and over again, but there are no conversations of how to fix the damage started by slavery. We need repair and we need it now. We must fix the black family together. It starts with repairing the relationship between parent and child and the current child support guideline is the issue. There are a number of conversations about how child support needs to be restructured and how it is tearing our black men down as well as our black women even though they think they are benefiting. You are swapping out a relationship with the other parent for money. But then get very upset when the parent that is paying support is not spending the time with the child. Was it ever considered that after paying that support, they don’t have the means to spend the time with the child? Where are they going if the other parent now can’t afford a home or food? Was it considered that even the support is not going to be enough, but you as the custodial parent can’t get a job because you cannot afford child care? We have to fix this before we talk about advancing our community, we must fix the struggle of the families. Again, there are a number of conversations about how child support needs to be restructured and how it is tearing our black men down as well as our black women. But that is all they are is talk! We are taking action! Please review what is wrong with the current child support guideline, our proposed new guideline for child support that decriminalizes child support and provides support to both parents for the care of the child form the state not the other parent to include childcare, and then sign the petition!!!! We Need Change Now!! Before this election if possible! We will be presenting this to our constituent representative-Date to be announced!
So what do we do? We petition for a reform of child support that holds both parents EQUALLY responsible for the support of the child as well as EQUALLY supporting BOTH parents without criminalization that snatches the parent away from the child and assisting to make sure the parent is able to meet t...