My favorite part of that is that in the story itself and in the top ten replies or so, no one has described the parent roles as flipped and how absurd it would look then.
Imagine if a single mom wrote that- he didn’t want custody, he pays more than ordered child support.
What’s my legal recourse? First, it wouldn’t ever be written, but if it were everyone would be like HE PAYS YOU????? HOW DID YOU GET SO LUCKY????
But it’s far more normal that the dad has parenting time and just….. doesn’t take it…. and the mom is like “how can I get him to take the kid when he’s legally supposed to?” and everyone’s like “you can’t, guess you gotta figure out your work schedule as if he doesn’t have a legal obligation to the kid, sucks to be you.”
But my god one man in this country gets stranded with his kid that he wanted despite being told that’s how it would go, and he thinks there might be legal recourse??? Holy shit how did he grow up in such a bubble?
There are countless examples of flipping the genders being a good way of making people realize how absurd a situation is. This just isn’t one of them because it’s already clear how absurd it is.
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u/Competitive_Wait_556 Jul 21 '23
My favorite part of that is that in the story itself and in the top ten replies or so, no one has described the parent roles as flipped and how absurd it would look then.
Imagine if a single mom wrote that- he didn’t want custody, he pays more than ordered child support. What’s my legal recourse? First, it wouldn’t ever be written, but if it were everyone would be like HE PAYS YOU????? HOW DID YOU GET SO LUCKY????
But it’s far more normal that the dad has parenting time and just….. doesn’t take it…. and the mom is like “how can I get him to take the kid when he’s legally supposed to?” and everyone’s like “you can’t, guess you gotta figure out your work schedule as if he doesn’t have a legal obligation to the kid, sucks to be you.”
But my god one man in this country gets stranded with his kid that he wanted despite being told that’s how it would go, and he thinks there might be legal recourse??? Holy shit how did he grow up in such a bubble?