Child Neglect in California

Neglect
Citation: Penal Code § 11165.2
Neglect means the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm to the child’s health or welfare. The term includes both acts and omissions on the part of the responsible person.Severe neglect means the negligent [...]

Turning in a deadbeat~

So it’s interesting what I can see on the “backend” of my blog.  I can see search terms used to get here, links,  etc.  So the search terms “should I turn in a deadbeat I know” caught my eye and made me think about it.
I’m wondering how someone casually knows someone is a  deadbeat.   [...]

There are always questions

Earlier this week, my daughter turned four - with all the little girl joy that is possible. I enjoy watching her at play - everything is so all or nothing with her.
There’s a Volvo commercial with a little girl that doesn’t stop talking as her dad goes to the driver’s side of the car [...]

Truth

“It’s not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.”

Driver’s License Bill is Not Unfair to Noncustodial Parents

It’s  a year old - but it’s a good article - good points, and very true.
Attorney Jeffrey Leving and columnist Glenn Sacks contend that a Kansas bill that will take away driver’s licenses from ‘deadbeat parents’ who owe more than $ 500 in support arrearages is “unfair” because it disproportionately affects the poor.
However, they ignore [...]

Coralling Deadbeat Dads

From the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201540.html?nav=hcmodule

By Mary T. Wagner
Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page A19
My standard speech is always the same. I can‘t make a guy be a good father. I can’t make him walk the floor with a sick child, drive to soccer games, run to Walgreen’s at midnight to pick up a prescription, help [...]

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain’t necessary - it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

What we tell our children

“You can’t be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he’ll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.”
Frederick Buechner

The First of the month

ahhhh, the day the amount of unpaid child support goes up since we are now at 118 days with no payments made.
So the new total that is outstanding is $3954.42.
“A man’s character is his fate.”
— Heraclitus (c. 540-c. 475 B.C.)

Weekend Thoughts

I have a friend who says she is “skipping” on something.  Those under 30 probably don’t remember record players, and record skipping, over and over, until you got up and physically moved the needle.
I admit my brain skips over and over about the Non-Custodial parent not paying child support; the issues within the child support [...]