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Trying to pretend we, as a government, need to control how women spend child support is nothing more than an extension of sexism. There are many expenses in a household and money coming from two different sources need not be kept as separate books.
It is, in fact, dead-beatism to pretend a grave injustice occurs in the expenditure of child support and we, as a government, need to keep books for women receiving child support.
End of story.
The justification is an extension of the state using force to take the funds from another party, which is why there is a call for greater control and accountability. Your use of the term "deadbeats" is just an appeal to emotion. You levy accusation of sexism, but really you're oversimplifying the issue to make an emotional argument. Consider that we a live in a no-fault divorce world, and the issue gets even more complicated. Really, no one in this thread has been advocating for women to be forcibly returned to traditional gender roles. Rather, people are arguing for men to be released from there's -- forced to be providers and protectors or be shamed as "deadbeats" with little regard for their individual circumstances. Even those who desire to be parents and contribute as much as they can are shoveled under the derogatory umbrella.