Deadbeat fathers - the new pariahs!

 I can speak on this matter without the inhibition of a guilty

    conscience: the plight of the new pariahs - deadbeat dads.  With

    their pictures in post offices everywhere , along with the  MOST

    WANTED , are they all just human maggots -utterly contemptible ?

         They know that society has it in for them . No wonder a certain

    Kevin C. Wulf- deadbeat dad arrested at the airport in Warwick ( Providence

    Journal, Jan. 28, page B1 ) - is being taken away in a wheel chair!

        This 33 year old father owes almost $14,000 in child support. He

    had gone AWOL from that sentimental, idealized institution - the American

    Family. But he cannot hope for the " relief " of a DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE.

    As a cynical lawyer put it, he fell for " nature's dirty trick " and

    now has  society to deal with. Welfare reform clearly demanded this

    draconian treatment of " irresponsible " fathers.

          It is so easy to reproduce the race .But so   difficult to

    raise a child. The deadbeats cannot expect any sympathy from other

    unhappy but " stuck " breeders of the race.

        But even slavery has its compensations! How many " responsible "

    dads compensate for being nobodies in the world by lording over

    their children ? " I'll break both your legs  Phillip ! " I heard

    this refrain at my childhood friend's house.

         Dave, the boy next door, routinely got his ass kicked by the

    old man. Perhaps he did nothing. But he MIGHT do something! At least

    a deadbeat dad would not have been around to beat him.

        I hear the young divorced man downstairs at night . He won

    custody of the kids ! I wonder what the  deadbeat wife was like ?

    " Go to sleep, gooo to sleeep ! " he yells at the three year old. " I'll

    throw you out the window ! I'll bounce you off the wall ! "

         What a way to get a kid to go to sleep !

       Perhaps a reporter should interview this Kevin C. Wulf, the AWOL

    from the FAMILY LIFE. Maybe he cannot afford to pay the $65 a week in

    child support . Maybe it does take a community to raise a child ?