Deadbeat Parents Put on Pizza Boxes

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:01:00 GMT

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.

Kids? What Kids?: Dad Who Owes $60,000 in Child Support Busted

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:03:00 GMT

A New Hampshire father who went into hiding rather than pay child support is back in the state and facing charges that he owes his kids more than $60,000. "Father of the Year" Brian Sears chose to lay low in Florida rather than support his two kids.

Sears told the judge that he has worked as a construction project manager, but is now homeless and out of work now because of a back injury. The judge said: Yeah, whatever. Find a job where you don't use your back, and get back to court later in the month so we can figure out how you're going to pay down your tab. Can you put something on it?

Or something like that.

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Deadbeat Parents Put on Pizza Boxes

Kids? What Kids?: Dad Who Owes $60,000 in Child Support Busted