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Should Child Support be a Thing of the Past

An Unpopular Opinion

Robyn Kagan Harrington
5 min readSep 14, 2020

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I never quite understood the point of child support as a rule. Why is one parent always ordered to pay child support even when there is 50/50 custody? I know that this is an unpopular opinion but let me explain my reasoning.

When two parents care for their child, 50 percent of the time, they both have the same expenses. Since in…

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Robyn Kagan Harrington

Writing about Travel, History, Politics, Life, and Current Events.