Customers
of some suburban Cincinnati pizza restaurants aren't just getting a
side of ranch dressing with their pizza, they're also getting wanted posters of deadbeat parents affixed to their pizza boxes.
Local
officials, trying to collect cumulative past-due child support of $106
billion, realized that parents who are running from the law rather than
pay child support probably aren't dining out, they're ordering in. They
see this innovative approach as a way to put pressure on parents to do
the right thing.
Authorities contacted local pizzerias about the
program and three restaurants agreed to participate leading to one
arrest so far. Restaurants claim no customers have complained and most
"think it's a good idea."
A local fathers' rights attorney
disagrees, calling the tactic "horrible." He feels it can have a
devastating effect on kids to see their dad's faces on a pizza box.
More devasting than having a father (or mother) who doesn't want anything to do
with you? I think not.
