What a tough break

[HazelWings]

Don't you feel sorry for people like this?


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I wonder how they'd survive on the $184.62 in child support I get every month for two kids?

 

[Im_A]

Don't you feel sorry for people like this?


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I wonder how they'd survive on the $184.62 in child support I get every month for two kids?

I have no sympathy for people like that. I can't understand that world, and they would never be able to understand my utmost criticism of their vanity.

They would have to go through what Ken Karpman went through before I would have an inch of sympathy. I have a ton of more sympathy for that beggar in the streets who use good intentions for addictions. I suppose I have more empathy towards the psychological problems those in poverty have to deal with vs. what they rich has to deal with.

To drive my point more home...child support that is more than a ton of people's annual income? Yea...ok.

 

[MacFall]

I bet it would do the boy good to live like "poor people" do for a while. Say, until he gets a job and earns enough money to live any other way.

 

[Inkachu]

Child support? What's that?

Seriously. A lot of us survive on zero support

 

[Parfay]

Ms. Evangelista argues that $46,000 is the minimum required to provide for young Augustin in the manner to which he has

He's four. The manner to which he is accustomed does not require $46,000 and if it does he's young enough to adapt with little fuss.

But then I think about the circles they move in, the amount the father makes compared to the amount being asked for, and I think "meh". It makes sense, he's the child of a billionaire and she's a supermodel, she's not going to ask for the amount most people have to fight to get.

Sympathy? Probably not. It's the same amount of "they did the deed, he should pay an amount that is proportionate to his income and reasonable for the circles the father belongs to" that I have for anyone else in that situation. It may seem like a lot, but that's what you get for being a billionaire and having children with supermodels.

 

[SweetDee]

Wow, I am the nanny to the wrong family. I wonder if she is hiring.

 

[HazelWings]

Wow, I am the nanny to the wrong family. I wonder if she is hiring.

 

[Im_A]

Wow, I am the nanny to the wrong family. I wonder if she is hiring.

lol

 

[toastface_grillah]

"...in the manner to which he has grown accustomed." In other words, if she doesn't get the 46 G's, the kid cries.

 

[Inkachu]

"Augustin"? Poor kid.

 

[HazelWings]

"Augustin"? Poor kid.

Did anyone else just suddenly think of the original Willy Wonka movie and the kid that fell in the chocolate river?

 

[Parfay]

I'm just going to add a few things.

Augustin is a pretty common name in high society, no different from Augustus, August, Austin, Gus, or any other name. It's a very fine name.

I can also see why many young women I know, those who have very little going for them other than their looks, have stated in a not too comical fashion that they plan to be impregnated by someone with a lot of money then chase after as much child support as they can.

Now I have to watch a bit of Gene Wilder Wonka action

 

[Blank123]

46,000 is an outrage - how can anyone be expected to live on so little?

And geez... I thought I was well paid at my nanny job. Now I kinda feel gypped

 

[Sketcher]

A 24/7 nanny crew - does she not want to be his mother or something?