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Deadbeat Dads

WATCH: Why He's Living Out Of His Car

Posted 05.16.2013 | Divorce

On Wednesday, Memphis' Action News 5 profiled "Billy" (not his real name), a man who says he's living out of his Buick in order to make his child supp...

Police: Deadbeat Dad Literally Tries To Crawl Away From Paying Child Support

Posted 03.31.2013 | Chicago

Police say a deadbeat dad from the Chicago suburb of Maywood was found literally trying to crawl away from making child support payments. Cops were...

Most Wanted Deadbeat Dad Pleads Guilty

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 04.23.2013 | New York

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A New York man once dubbed by prosecutors as the government's most wanted deadbeat parent pleaded guilty Thursday to owing...

Hollywood's 'Deadbeat' Parents

Posted 04.01.2013 | Divorce

More than $100 billion is owed in unpaid child support, according to the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement's 2009 data. But it's not o...

Deadbeat Dads and Child Support Woes

Joshua Shulman | Posted 05.07.2012 | Business
Joshua Shulman

But here's the catch -- do we really want collection efforts to be so thorough that they force poor people onto the streets? The rule will just be one more detail tending to make it literally impossible for poor people to support themselves.

Why Do Single Dads Get Shafted?

Vicki Larson | Posted 02.12.2012 | Divorce
Vicki Larson

As much as we love the idea of men being an equal partner in a marriage, we don't necessarily embrace the idea of men being an equal partner in a divorce.

Report: Joe Walsh Among Congress's 'Most Corrupt' Members

Posted 11.20.2011 | Chicago

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) on Tuesday received the distinction of being named among Congress's thirteen "most corrupt" representatives by the group ...

Joe Walsh's Ex-Wife: Quit Lying

Katie Halper | Posted 10.16.2011 | Comedy
Katie Halper

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Wanted: 1,000+ Deadbeat Parents

Posted 08.21.2011 | Chicago

One day after Father's Day, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Monday that his department's website would, within the next two weeks, post photogr...

Why We Don't Need A 'Men's Movement' To Be Good Men

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Tom Matlack

There are plenty of ways the law (particularly family law) and popular culture, as represented by the media, have limited men. But we have no one to blame but ourselves. We made the laws. We control the media. Our popular culture has dumbed down men to sex- and sports-crazed idiots, with very little space for the nuanced truth of how hard it is to try to be a good dad and a good husband and breadwinner

Virgin Birth and the Deadbeat Holy Ghost: A Mother's Manifesto

Sandy Kaczmarski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Sandy Kaczmarski

I'm approaching my 58th birthday, have been divorced as long as I was married, and yet I still have to make copies of my joint custody papers. Someone...

Rubbernecking: An Additional Ten Reality Shows I'd Like to See

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Holly Cara Price

Lindsay Hop - in which we follow La Lohan on her merry adventures tearing through Hollywood's party scene whilst destroying thousands of brain cells.