Today I bought a jumbo pack of Pampers & a big tin of Similac formula for a friend, who is desperate, and humbled herself to ask for help.
The father of the 3-month old boy blocked her number and after a couple of $50 payments no longer will help with the support of the infant.
They were together for about a year before the birth.
But this is not the only Dominican mother I know in this condition. I know 3 others, all of whom receive no support and the fathers want nothing to do with their children. They were just hit & run sperm donors. I know this is incredibly common here, becuase I know very few Dominicans.
I would guess it's more than half the fathers that do not help support their offspring.
Yes the mother can get a court order but the fathers ignore it and nothing happens to them. And many of these children get dumped on the grandmother.
Due to this seemingly rate of absentee fathers their is no doubt why the DR seems to be in such a sad state of education, family cohesion with high prostitution and drug & alcohol abuse.
This is very similar to the broken family units in the Northern US ghettos created by The Great Society, like Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit that are awash with illegitimate births, drugs and violence,
Yes their are some great DR families, but my guess most of those are where both parents had some better education, which definitely is not the majority.
The father of the 3-month old boy blocked her number and after a couple of $50 payments no longer will help with the support of the infant.
They were together for about a year before the birth.
But this is not the only Dominican mother I know in this condition. I know 3 others, all of whom receive no support and the fathers want nothing to do with their children. They were just hit & run sperm donors. I know this is incredibly common here, becuase I know very few Dominicans.
I would guess it's more than half the fathers that do not help support their offspring.
Yes the mother can get a court order but the fathers ignore it and nothing happens to them. And many of these children get dumped on the grandmother.
Due to this seemingly rate of absentee fathers their is no doubt why the DR seems to be in such a sad state of education, family cohesion with high prostitution and drug & alcohol abuse.
This is very similar to the broken family units in the Northern US ghettos created by The Great Society, like Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit that are awash with illegitimate births, drugs and violence,
Yes their are some great DR families, but my guess most of those are where both parents had some better education, which definitely is not the majority.
