Political Quotes

“the streets of America, as the Halls of Congress, have been filled with calls for young mothers to be more responsible, not to have children when they cannot take the responsibility for those children, to certainly cooperate and establish the paternity of the child's father. We hear this and we agree with this, but we really want to know, particularly in the contract, where are the demands for fathers to be responsible? We must clearly say that both parents have an equal and unavoidable responsibility to provide for their children. The taxpayers want to provide for their own children, not for other people's children. We have to insist that we have both parents responsible, because if we do not collect child support, we will have more people on Aid to Families with Dependent Children rather than less people. Recently the chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Clay Shaw, has come forth and said yes, we will take up the issue of child support enforcement.”