Oh, we don't disagree there. One of the most evil entities that exist. However, it's more evil once you bring sex into it, because it actually works toward proving both our points. Firstly, it concerns governmental control over the individual. This would be more toward what you talk about. For me, however, I see it as basically providing government-sanctioned promiscuity. Women (mostly) can get away with having children, and no matter how disgusting, despicable, remorseless the circumstance, there's a way for them to be provided for. The idea is, of course, to force certain parties into being responsible, but what this has essentially done is remove any need for the other party to be responsible in any capacity, which is what leads to situations like the same woman having 5 or 6 cases with different men. Or literally watching 3 generations of fathers and sons wind up with cases, where one that was once a dependent later becomes a so-called "non-custodial parent", and his child after him. Nobody learns anything from the process because it punishes certain people in ways that are proven not to help or improve behavior in any capacity, and then doesn't punish certain others at all or put any restrictions on their future behavior. Or even what they do with the fucking money.
So yeah, it's sick, but for more than one reason. While it does provide the benefit of recouping some welfare money, and does sometimes catch a jerkoff who really does one over on his spouse, those are definitely the exceptions. Which is very, very unfortunate.
