The Backlash! - July 1996

Organization News - Wisconsin Fathers for Equal Justice
P.O. Box 1742 Madison, WI 53701-1742

Dead Beat Moms

by William N. Fetzner


The feminist movement and the press have familiarized us over the past few years with the term "Dead Beat Dads" by creating images of irresponsible men who desert their children. But it turns out that the majority of these "deadbeat dads" are teen-aged boys and underclass men, poorly educated, both white and minority, who, aside from not supporting a child, cannot support themselves. Most of the others are unemployed.

Under recent federal and state legislation, we have criminalized men's behaviors for failure to pay child support, even though these men are often unemployed and unemployable. On the other hand, our society rewards young women who have children they cannot otherwise afford.

Unlike the young men, these women are the only ones who have a choice to have a child or not. They shift the economic burden of their choices to men.

Choice and its concurrent rights carry responsibilities! They choose to bear children, even though they know that they cannot support them. The responsibility belongs to them, but these Dead Beat Moms know that the federal and state funded AFDC program will relieve them of that burden by becoming their economic daddy.

AFDC provides a powerful incentive for teen-aged girls and young women to join the government-funded matriarchal underclass. Cleverly, radical feminists have created a myth that these women who make a choice are victims who deserve pity.

As this population has grown, MMO (Madison Men's Organization) would like to point out that U.S. prison populations have tripled over the past 20 years, filled for the most part with the male and female children of these Dead Beat Moms. About 70 percent have never had a father.

The sons of the Dead Beat Moms terrorize us on our streets, truly turning our cities into concrete jungles infested by theft, drugs, violence and death, while their daughters propagate another generation of underclass children to steal, terrorize and kill our culture. In effect, they are robbing us of civilization by creating a new, more virulent wave of violence.

The tripling of prison populations has occurred from children born 15 to 20 years ago, when the percentage of Dead Beat Moms was much lower. Since that time the number of Dead Beat Moms has tripled. Even if we stop rewarding these irresponsible women right now, this indicates that we will be confronted with a continuing explosion of prison populations for the next 20 years.

A woman can choose not to become pregnant; should contraception fail, she has the choice of an abortion. If they bear children they cannot support, it is by choice, and it is time for our society to consider criminalizing such irresponsible behavior.

It is an insult to every working mother to have an AFDC mother flaunt that it is her right to be a professional mother. No one has the right to be a parasite, and when working mothers, who struggle to work and parent (like fathers have always been expected to), rise up in anger over Dead Beat Moms, politically the situation will change. Many working moms now realize what men have long known: One, they work and pay taxes; two, they support and raise their children; three, paying for child care is a significant financial burden; four, they are forced to pay through their taxes for the irresponsible behaviors of Dead Beat Moms. The children of Dead Beat Moms are those who terrorize the women of our society by assaulting, abusing and raping them. MMO believes that responsible women should be in the forefront in decrying Dead Beat Moms!

Our society needs to reward positive behavior and punish negative behavior. We need tax breaks and incentives for those men and women who marry, work, and care for their children. We need to consider implant contraceptives for Dead Beat Moms. Our society should withdraw state funded financial support from Dead Beat Moms, consider criminalizing their behaviors and imposing mandatory prison sentences. We need to end AFDC that rewards irresponsible behavior, declare as child abuse the bearing of children by women who know they cannot financially care for them, and with the power of the state, terminate their parental rights and force them to give up for adoption their financially neglected children.

Our society should care for its children before protecting the individual procreative rights of Dead Beat Moms.

Dead Beat Moms is a copyrighted term owned by the Madison Men's Organization. Permission to use the term is granted as long as Madison Men's Organization is cited.

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