Man Kills Child Over Paying Child Support

Get the full story here…. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/new_orleans_child_killed;_ylt=Aqn7h2T0iQc5DddNCeyQ3AtbIwgF

A 22 yr old black man in New Orleans, LA apparently thought that either a dead child or baby momma would be better than paying $4,000 in back child support……

I have sooooo many things to say about this story.

First off, this should serve as warning sign to women out here having unprotected sex with men who they KNOW can barely take care of themselves. As bad as the  economy is now a days, it can’t be THAT hard to determine if a man is  responsible and I know for a fact that a man will tell you straight up the minute he finds out that you are pregnant if he’ll be bothered with  you or not. So that’s the first thing I thought of when I read this, women pay the attention so you not singing the baby momma blues this time next year.   

Secondly, is it THAT bad in these streets that klling either your child or baby momma to avoid child support payments is the only thing you can come up with? Can’t you just leave the state? Or why don’t you just work  under the table like MY father did for 15+ years and let it be what it  may! That’s why I think there has to be more to this story and it  reminds me of that teenage girl in IL who killed her newborn baby because she was tired of watchin him and wanted to ‘go to a party’ but nooooooo one even mentioned that she could have possibly been suffering from post partum depression but had she been white she woulda been the new Susan Smith or Andrea Yates.  According to the man’s baby momma (who is referred to as his wife even though they don’t have the same last name) he has never suffered from any mental illness or emotional problems and they never had any major arguments. I just can’t believe this to be true. ‘Normal’ people with NO mental or emotional problems don’t kill their children so he had to be off his rocker to begin with or he snapped. So I’ll definitely be keeping up with this story because the man is quoted as saying that he had a ‘bunch of reasons’ for killing his son so hopefully the truth, as horrible as it may be, will come out.

I am in no way defending this man or dead beat black men out there but its fuckin hard out here! There are already high suicide rates among black males and mental illness is swept under the rug in black communities so shit like this needs to open people’s eyes to whats going on with our black men as opposed to demonizing them every opportunity they get! People may think I’m crazy but I think the whole child support system is a fuckin joke and there should be  laws to where if a man is willing to sign over all parental rights for a child and agree to have no contact with them than they should not have  to pay child support. Now I know that sounds radical and of course there would be exceptions and exclusions to this rule but what ELSE is going  to stop WOMEN from having children with men who are irresponsible and  sorry?! How many pregnant girls and women out there think that everything is going to be ok because once the baby is here they can just  put the baby daddy on child support? Too many! I think families would stand up and make boy, girls, men and women more responsible if it were that easy to walk away from a child.  Somebody is gonna have to stand up and start taking responsiblity and based on this article its going have to be the women.