Parents Behaving Badly

Jefferson County Seeks to Humiliate Delinquent Parents into Paying

by admin on August 15th, 2006

Jefferson County is proud of itself. The Kentucky county has gone ahead and published the names of all of mothers and fathers who owe past child support to the state their children. (Oops, sorry - a little libertarian-esque cynicism almost snuck its way in there.) It’s a yearly ritual that nets about $1 million in past payments.

The full list of delinquents is available online (PDF). The biggest offender: Troy S. King of 8307 Palatka Rd., who owes a mind-boggling $53,833.68. Day-yumn. I’ve been in debt before (he says unconvincingly in the past tense), so there may be a few too many glass walls around me to go chucking stones, but…DAY-YUMN. If there’s one debt you never want to fall behind on - one debt you have a clear, overriding moral obligation to pay, the one debt that could leave you sharing a room with a guy who thinks your ass looks mighty cute in a pair of Levi’s - it’s this one. Dude, there’s "being behind", and then there’s "owing the equivalent of an IT worker’s yearly salary".

Best of luck to Mr. King and the others in crawling out of the hole they’ve dug beneath their own feet.

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