Post by Jim on Feb 12, 2009 7:17:52 GMT -5
Fifteen years ago, I had a beautiful mini-farm with 13 acres, a Connecticut gentleman's barn, and four horses running in the front yard. My wife of 14 years came home one day and announced that she hated it because' "it is boring, tiresome,& lonely" and that she was leaving me and taking our 2 little girls.
I had always been an excellent father by everyones account. This being the land of the free and the home of the brave and all, I felt that at some point in the process I would be able to get up on the witness stand to tell my side of the story. Of course, I did not !!! I was merely plugged into the "multi-million dollar divorce industry" and sent down the river along with all the other Dads who love their little children and did nothing wrong. (I still haven't met a Dad that was able to get on the witness stand & tell his side of the story! )
I spent many years gutting deer on the carport for meat and hitch-hiking to the hospital with my old Volvo broken down on the side of the road.
Last year I paid my final child support payment which represented the largest government mandated re-distribution of wealth that I have personally witnessed (42% of gross income for prime capitol earning years from age 35 to age 50.) My children are now 18 & 21. The loss my children suffered is too tremendous to detail here but, they essentially grew up fatherless by vertue of the Georgia state government. I don't even care about the money anymore but, how do you replace missing the "terrible two's" for the baby's sake...or the Daddy. I have testified before the State Judicial Committee but it has fallen on deaf ears. In my case, there were no extenuating circumstances. It was right down the middle and average in every reguard.
So what do you do? I wipe up alot of tears. I call my girls to tell them I love them every day. I never stand and put my hand over my heart for the National Anthem.
I had always been an excellent father by everyones account. This being the land of the free and the home of the brave and all, I felt that at some point in the process I would be able to get up on the witness stand to tell my side of the story. Of course, I did not !!! I was merely plugged into the "multi-million dollar divorce industry" and sent down the river along with all the other Dads who love their little children and did nothing wrong. (I still haven't met a Dad that was able to get on the witness stand & tell his side of the story! )
I spent many years gutting deer on the carport for meat and hitch-hiking to the hospital with my old Volvo broken down on the side of the road.
Last year I paid my final child support payment which represented the largest government mandated re-distribution of wealth that I have personally witnessed (42% of gross income for prime capitol earning years from age 35 to age 50.) My children are now 18 & 21. The loss my children suffered is too tremendous to detail here but, they essentially grew up fatherless by vertue of the Georgia state government. I don't even care about the money anymore but, how do you replace missing the "terrible two's" for the baby's sake...or the Daddy. I have testified before the State Judicial Committee but it has fallen on deaf ears. In my case, there were no extenuating circumstances. It was right down the middle and average in every reguard.
So what do you do? I wipe up alot of tears. I call my girls to tell them I love them every day. I never stand and put my hand over my heart for the National Anthem.
