Child Support
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Initial panel: “Meme of the day: If life begins at conception, fathers should have to pay child support from that date, fund a college education, and give inheritance to their offspring” [text cuts off from subsequent speech bubble]
Speech bubble: “Can we just stop? Why are we discussing a father’s role as through it’s purely financial?”
After speech bubble: Maybe fathers should also have to:
- Perform an amount of public service equal to the time it takes to attend sports games, recitals, teacher conferences, etc.
- Survive eight months of chronic sleep deprivation to do additional public service.
- Transfer all (yes, all) their personal leave to the mother for sick-kid days.
- Spend 90 minutes each weeknight on a homework tutoring service. Schedule it over happy hour. If the kids they tutor don’t do well in school, their time obligation rises.
- Donate use of every vehicle they own or lease to a rideshare program for mothers three days per week.
Final panel: “Men owe more than money for creating a lifetime of responsibility.”