Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

by Helen Smith

When I was in the Marine Corps, I was sued by 11 different women for child support. When you are enlisted, much information about you becomes public record. Single mothers who are pressured by state welfare agencies to name a father find enlisted men who are stationed overseas and name them as the father. Now you’re supposed to have 3 things to start a paternity claim, like you have to be in the same country as the mother at the time she gets pregnant, but no one cares about that. I got home from Afghanistan and found my bank account emptied out with no recourse . . . because I missed court hearings I didn’t know were happening, and by default became the legal father of a child. It’s a huge scam, and no one cares. . . . The state gets their money back from a rube, and the mother stops getting hounded.