$ / n children = child support?

Topic: American Politics/News

Democratic State Senator John Ford from Tennessee is in trouble for having too many families. According to this AP article he lives alternately with two women, in two seperate homes, with the children that he fathered with each. Now he is trying to use a law he authored as Head of the Senate committee on child welfare to keep his child support payments low. Conflict of interest?

But wait, there's more. He is also battling a third woman he had a child with to keep those child support payments low. His main argument is that the support he pays out to each woman should be tempered by how many children he has to support. In other words, the more children he has, the less support he should have to pay to each. And now his ex-wife is pregnant with another child by him? Unbelievable.

This man makes me sick. To think that he is an elected official as well... I would be ashamed to live in his district. Yet somehow I doubt this will affect his political career much.