30 Children?

 

This one has to be filed under the heading of unbelievable.

 

A man in Knoxville, Tennessee is the father of thirty children.  Thirty children by eleven different women.

 

He holds a minimum wage job and has gone to court to ask the judge to give him some relief from his child support payments. 

 

What happened here?  How did it happen?

 

Okay, we can skip the obvious part about how it happened.  But there is a much more serious issue here.  In the last few years, a new word has entered the American lexicon.  It is “Baby daddy.”

 

Baby daddy refers to the biological father of a child who is not married to the mother and is often not involved in the child’s life. 

 

How could a guy have so many children?

 

It is simple.  The government subsidizes illegitimacy. 

 

Fifty years ago, illegitimacy was fairly rare.  There was the social stigma attached to it and there was also the financial issue.  We did not have working mothers like we do today and if a woman became pregnant she knew her only alternative was to marry the father.

 

Likewise, for the men involved, if they got a girl pregnant they knew they were obligated to marry the woman.   That alone kept some men on the straight and narrow. 

 

Then came welfare. Suddenly not only was illegitimacy not a problem, generous welfare packages made it attractive not to have a man in the house or in the picture.  If the woman married the man, she would lose benefits.  If she stayed single, she kept the benefits.

 

There is a very simple rule of economics that the left does not understand.  If you subsidize anything, you get more of it.  The left created the welfare state, which subsidized out of wedlock births and what did you get? 

 

More out of wedlock births!

 

The women have the children.  They are provided public housing, and medical coverage and food stamps and welfare payments.  The men are hounded by state agencies to pay their child support and as many of them cannot and only hold down minimum wage jobs, they frequently end up in the debtor’s prison for men who cannot pay their child support.

 

Those on the left like to screech about cold-hearted conservatives, who want to end welfare, toss welfare mothers and their children onto the streets.   Yet these same Democrats are responsible for the utter devastation of segments of American society with their idiotic policies that have failed and failed completely.

 

Instead of owning up to their mistakes, all they do is vilify those who try to fix the problems.

 

Meanwhile, in Knoxville, Desmond Hatchett labors away at minimum wage, begging a judge to cut the child support he is required to pay for thirty children by eleven women.   He does not care whether he has more kids by more women.  He does not pay for them.  One of the children gets $1.49 a month as his share of child support! 

 

Hatchett does not worry about it and neither do the women he sleeps with.  They do not have to worry because if they get pregnant the government will take care of them.  Hatchett only complains because what little money he makes is being taken by the government.  Perhaps he should have thought about that before he slept with all of those women.

 

For Desmond Hatchett, birth control really is being able to hit your target.