[cyclone3483]

The system truly is screwed up. Consider a man working full time and his wife stays at home to raise the 4 kids, even home schooling them. Years later, he discovers from the kids that she has not been home schooling them for a long time, just telling them to work and then leaving the house. On top of that, she files for divorce and she is now entitled to an exhorbitant amount of spousal support because she has no job plus a large amount of child support if the kids are with her at least half the time. She fights for the kids that she doesn't seem to want to even be around because there is $ for having custody. In this actual case, it is fortunate that three of the kids are old enough to choose their parenting situation and ALL of them choose to be with their dad full time. That actually put the child support burden back on her and partially offsets the spousal support. If the kids were any younger, he'd be forking out up to $4k a month in total support.