Deadbeat Parents

Hello all. I am a single parent like many many other parents across the US. I work hard everyday to provide a home, food, health care, and the million other things that my children need every single day of their lives. I pay child care when they are not in school. I make sure they have thier school supplies, school clothes, lunch money. I wake up with them when they are sick. I take them to the doctor when they need to be taken. I give them love, kindness, smiles, hope, determination, promise, security, and whatever else they may need from me. I am there if they wake up in the middle of the night. I am there when they need a bandaid on thier knee. What I would like to know is if the other parent does not want to be there for any of the things that are necessary for my children to grow up to be productive citizens in todays society, then why cant they at least at the very minimum, pay child support. Why, if they choose not to, are they not penalized? The children are being penalized by this parent. So why don't they have to have responsibilty? I try to teach my children to be responsible in a society that does not make an absentee parent responsible for his or her own child. I would like whoever it is that makes these rules to please take another look. Please get tough and show that irresponsible behavior is not acceptable. Please put children first. They are our future and deserve to be treated as such. If you agree and would like to help me please sign this petition. I will do my best to make a difference. Thank you. My children thank you.