Opinions on child support?

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****This isn't a question about "what do you think child support should be used for" because if someone is getting it, it really doesn't matter what they use it for. The courts have determined that it is owed to them and therefore they have the right to use it however they please.****

A little backstory! I have a friend who's gender we will not reveal because I want everyone's honest opinions, and not what they think should happen based on outdated gender roles. This friend might be a woman, they might be a man. Keep that in mind. This friend has three children already, and this friend is now expecting a fourth. This friend's children have all been spawned by different people. My friend has not been able to keep a partner for longer than two years. None of F's (which is what we'll call them, short for friend) partners are on child support. They're all very good parents, they love F dearly and are all very sad that their relationship didn't work out. F has a great life! F's exes make sure F and their kids want for nothing. Now, F has a new partner, and F's new partner (P) is a sack of shit. F wants to put P on child support, but our friend group told F that they are wrong. F can easily provide for a fourth child, even without their 3 exes who regularly send F thousands of dollars per month. F knows that P is probably gonna be a shitty parent. P has no children and very very little income. So any child support that F receives from P will do very little to help care for the little one, and will probably end up negatively impacting P's life. Now, P probably should've thought of that before they decided to slack with their birth  control, but that's neither here nor there. The question is: If the parent with primary custody of the child makes waaaaayyyy more money than the other, should the other parent still have to pay child support? What do y'all think about child support in general? One of our friends argued that even if F was destitute, it is their responsibility to make sure that they are able to take care of their child on their own in the event that their partner can not. Another friend said that P should be obligated to pay child support because P should be held responsible for the life they helped to create (but I disagree with that logic. It's like saying that children are some kind of punishment). What say you?

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Whoever has primary custody should receive child support.

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The parent who has primary custody should receive child support, even if they don't need it, they can put it in a savings account for the child. There's a reason courts have an equation to determine the amount of child support a person has to pay, they aren't going to take every dime P has, even if it's $20.00/month, it's something.

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I voted no but I'm stuck in the middle. I do believe that child support can be a good thing in the event that a parent decides they want nothing to do with a child they mothered/fathered but if that parent already is struggling, it's not helping anyone. $100/ month is buying a box of diapers and maybe 3 cans of formula and the parent it was taken from is now $100 short on rent or gas or whatever and it just leads to a downward spiral for them which then leads to back child support. If that parent can afford to comfortably provide for the kid then child support is helping both parties. But there are situations where child support is unfair . Some men or women keep a child out of spite thinking that's gonna keep parent B in their lives forever. 
In this situation, I think F is being spiteful and if they do truly have enough resources to comfortably provide for baby #4, they need to do so but also keep P in the loop in case they come around and would like to try parenting.

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They should get child support. If you made a baby you gotta provide something. All financial stuff from the kid shouldn't lay on one person as it takes 2 to tango. If they don't need the money put it in a college fund or emergency money.

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If you think supporting your own child monetarily is punishment there are a lot more issues going on....

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I'm opinion with child support is that, If the other person has it and doesn't help out THEN they deserve to be in the child's life. If the other parent is active in the child's life and do what they can and if asked for something, They get it done then there shouldn't be no reason to be put on child support. I've seen many people put someone on child support because they're no longer together and doing it out of bitterness or because they think the person has it and doesn't want to help out.

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If you have a child,  you need to support it. Period. Child support doesn't have to be monetary. If they don't make alot and can watch the child instead of having to go to daycare, cool with me.

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I'm sorry I couldn't read your whole thing because the F and P thing confuses me lol. But I will give my view on child support. I think if a parent does not want to be in the child's life, they should not have to pay child support. But I also believe in that event, they get zero rights to that child or a say in how they are raised. So if both want rights to the child, I think it really depends. I have seen some men go broke because of it. I don't think it should be used as a punishment. If the primary custodian has enough funds to raise that child, and the other does not have enough money to give, then why should they be obligated to pay? It should be a case by case basis with a financial analysis of both parties.

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while yes that person did make the child, i think it would be very selfish because as you say, the parent already has plenty of money and does not need more.

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It takes two to make a baby and two should be paying for the child

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