Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Katelew who wrote (112248)	6/11/2009 5:08:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541992

As it stands now, the men take multiple wives, they bear children and the women and children go on the welfare roles and game the system. Is it really gaming the system? I'm not supporting the behavior, creating lots of children you can't or won't support is highly irresponsible. But the people in question only have one on one legal marriages. If the state won't recognize their marriage to others, then it shouldn't penalize it either. A polygamist who puts his children from his 2nd and third wife on welfare, should be treated the same as a guy who sleeps around and has children with several woman. He should be liable for child support, but its not fraud against the system. On second thought it could be. If the mother of the children tells the state who the father is, than presumably the state will go after him for child support. If she says the father is unknown, so she can get welfare, and she does know who the father is, than that is fraud/gaming the system, but its not gaming that's really connected to polygamy, the same would apply to any woman who lies about not knowing the father of her children so she can get support without the father being made to pay.