Should Cheaters Get Child Support?
Here’s a true story.. There was once a girl who had a guy friend, they were inseparable. They were friends since the 5th grade. The girl ends up keeping this guy in the friend zone and the guy always dreams of someday being the girl’s boyfriend. He watches her go through high school relationship one after another. He has a couple of his own, she has many more. He watches her cheat on every boyfriend she ever has.
They become roommates, she then goes to live withher sister and sleeps with her sister’s boyfriend. This causes a considerable rift between her and her sister-understandably so, especially when the girl refuses to apologize or seem to show any signs of remorse. Instead, she runs from the situation and stops talking to her sister. Things eventually blow over, her sister gets a decent, non-cheating boyfriend and the girl ends up moving to Californiato be with the guy.
He’s in the Navy and they end up eloping in California. None of the family knows they got married until it’s done and no one could be there because the family lived out of state. The girl and the guy move back to the state near their families. They end up getting pregnant. They have the baby, she seems to enjoy being a mother.
About six months goes by and the girl starts going out almost every Friday or Saturday for “girls niteout.” She and her single mother best friend go to this bar where a lot of military guys hang out. The girl loses her wedding ring-somehow. The girl dresses up her My Space page with sayings like, ”I like dirty rocker boys,” and a line about who she would like to meet…”anyone who likes to have a good time.” She’s got pictures of her kid and her husband on the page and lots and LOTS of pictures of her and her girlfriend’s and their “girls nights out.”
She starts telling her family how the guy is boring and lifeless, lazy and doesn’t pay her any attention. Mind you, the guy has 2 and sometimes 3 jobs in order to support the family. The girl ends up staying out later and later saying that her and her friends went out for breakfast after the bar. Until one night, she doesn’t even come home. Her excuse? She passed out drunk at her friend’s house and her phone was dead so she did not get any calls.
Her and her girlfriend “break up”. The girlfriend goes over to her house one day while she is not there. She needed to pick up some of her items that she left there. The girlfriend talks to the husband and tells him, that his wife went home with some guys one night even when she didn’t go with her. She goes on to say that his wife had a guy come over to their house everytime he went to Karate class a couple times a week, even while their kid was there.
The girl confesses to the guy that she did have an emotional relationship with a guy a year earlier, but she only talked to him about her problems at home and that they did nothing physical. The husband kicks the girl out, she takes the kid and goes to live with one of her friend’s who has a husband and lives with her mom. The guy tries to get the girl to give him joint custody, at first the girl agrees, but then she decides to go for child support and full custody.
The papers still are not filed, but it does not look good for the guy. My question is this…does the girl deserve to get child support? Should the guy pay for her infidelity and poor examples in front of his child? You decide.
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July 10th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The custodial parent is entitled to support payments, regardless of any perverted behavior. Life is not fair.
July 10th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@duke Stern– you are right i am very much concern at this point.life is not fair.
July 10th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
It is likely, the boyfriend will leave the estranged wife in the lurch not long into the affair. By then, the marriage will be irretrievably broken. With divorce in progress, the woman would require daycare for the child so that the wife can go to work. The husband will be required to cover a portion of all costs to keep the child clothed, fed, sheltered, all while the wife continues to move from one relationship to another. The support payments might also be used for purposes such as clothing the mother buys in order to wear out on the town while trolling for men, and buying drugs, alcohol, condoms plus medical bills for the wife who likely will contract at least one STD.
The effect on the child from living in such an environment? This is no one’s concern, until the child begins acting out in school or commits a crime. At this time, society begins picking up the tab for placing the child in programs that might help rehabilitate the child or some kind institutional commitment.
All the while, the father continues support payments until the child reaches the age of 18. The father will pay and keep his mouth shut. He probably can’t afford other legal options.
The father had plenty of warning.