Isn't the amount of child support owed a function of income though? I mean, it would be utterly absurd to ask of Drumpf the same you'd ask of an unemployed guy from a poor neighborhood... right?
In theory yes. In practice it can get pretty damned unreasonable. There are plenty of aspects of reproductive and family policy that I don't agree with TheDeadFlagBlues on, but the critique that he's lodging of the combination of current child support policies and lack of meaningful family structures in many communities rings true and is a much better argument than 'muh independent individuals, muh men should be able to screw their children too' or whatever.
Definitely. Admittedly I don't know very much on the subject, so I'd rather let you and DFB speak, but I'm convinced that the atrophy and sometimes downright perverse nature of the American welfare state is the root cause for many of the failings ascribed to the "American family".