Fathers Left Behind After Divorce Due to Federal Incentives—Mark Ludwig | American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

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Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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September 28, 2019Updated: October 26, 2019

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At the 48th Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Council, we sat down with Mark Ludwig, founder of Americans for Equal Shared Parenting.

We discuss child custody, divorce law, and family court, and how, in Ludwig’s eyes, the current system is stacked against dads getting equal access to their children. He argues that many social problems stem from the lack of a father figure in the home.

According to Ludwig, Title IV-D of the Social Security Act gives states large incentives for collecting child support. The more child support a state collects, the more federal money is given to the state. As a result, states are incentivized to minimize custody for one of the parents and to demand a hefty child custody amount from middle and upper-class non-custodial parents.

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