It’s astounding the steps and resources the government must expend to force noncustodial parents — almost always fathers – to do right by their children. I saw that up close when I rode along with sheriff’s deputies and police officers hunting down scofflaws.
The debtors were frequently tens of thousands of dollars behind in payments.
Stakeouts, admonishments by deputies, and handcuffs were common that day in 2011. Jail was a possibility, but judges were often loath to leave dads behind bars if it prevented them from paying up. That would harm their offspring even more.
I was reminded about that reporting as Virginia begins sorting out what a post-Roe v. Wade society will become. Last month’s anti-abortion, anti-privacy, anti-women ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a half-century-old constitutional right.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, wants to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Democrats and abortion rights supporters pledged to fight back. The guv told conservative activists last week he wants to go even further if Republicans hold onto the House of Delegates and flip the state Senate in the 2023 elections.
Republicans now hold a slight majority in the House, 52-48. Democrats have an even narrower edge in the Senate, 21-19; the Republican lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, would break tie votes in that chamber.
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