For some time now, there has been a meme going around wherein the mother of a man’s young child calls him and informs him that his child his hungry. He then turns up with a Happy Meal for his one child. But then, we’re shown a panel that shows his child smiling while several other children as well as their mother are all looking at him with jaws open in arrogance and shock.
What’s the problem? The man bought food for one child: his child. How dare he! I guess the story goes that he should have fed the other kids too, along with the mother of his child. Not so! He was only responsible for one child. That’s it. The other kids weren’t his problem, and it certainly wasn’t his obligation to feed a grown adult. Feeding kids that don’t belong to them is not a father’s job.
The majority of responses on social media condemned him. He should have shelled out money to feed the other kids as it apparently wasn’t fair that his kid got fed while the others didn’t, or so they say. Here’s the thing: he shouldn’t have even made the trip to begin with. Why? Child support!
Surely the guy in the meme paid child support, meaning that the mother of his child already got money with which to feed their child and their child alone. My response would have been to point out that I already gave her money for the month so therefore the hungry child is her problem, not mine.
I don’t understand how some single mothers operate. Rather than get a job and take care of their own children, they pull scams on the internet in a desperate attempt to feed their children. They try to victimize men who are so stupid that they would pay good money to feed children that aren’t theirs.
There’s a photograph going around the internet showing a single mother (black, of course) on a date, eating the largest food platter the establishment has to offer. While she’s eating, she’s casually scrolling through her phone, paying no attention to the man who thought he was on a date when in reality he was on a soup kitchen mission.
How pathetic is that woman? She has to con men into taking her on a date and her sole mission is to score enough food to feed her kids for a few days. Now, if it were me, I would have excused myself from the table and I would have walked out the door, leaving her with the bill. Con me? No, con her!
Look, I couldn’t care less about hungry kids, whether they’re mine or someone else’s. It’s not my obligation to feed a hungry child ever again. Been there, done that, not doing it again.
If I were the father getting a phone call claiming that my kid was hungry, I would have pointed out that child support has already been paid and as such, I’m not paying another penny until the 1st. I’ve done that, actually. I was current on my child support, and the child’s mother called claiming poverty and that our child is crying for food.
I calmly reminded her that I already sent her money for the month and I hung up. Not my problem! What did she do with that money? That’s the only question that mattered.
If the child starves, that’s the mother’s fault, not mine. Fathers need to stop being so easily duped into shelling out money for their kids when the law says that they don’t have to. As long as they’re paying their full child support, then not a single penny more should be paid out until the first of the month rolls around again. Let the mothers figure it out.