Being a parent is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. You have to learn so much and cope with your children’s personalities. It is even more difficult if you are a single parent and your former spouse is a deadbeat parent. The easiest approach to dealing with this situation is walking away and avoiding conflict but don’t. Your ex’s absence can affect your child more than you can imagine. Hire a Salt Lake City child custody attorney to help you reach a favorable outcome.
Lower quality of life
Children expect financial support from their parents. When a parent doesn’t provide for the children’s needs, the custodial parent will struggle financially and the children will have to do without many things they need growing up. The income of the mother is generally less than the income of the father, and moms are usually awarded custody of the children, which means the children may have a low quality of life.
Your presence in their lives
Children definitely need more than financial support in their lives. They need their parents’ presence. They want someone who will teach them things, morals, and values when growing up. Only a parent can show them, unconditional love. Having a deadbeat parent could mean struggling with fear of abandonment for the rest of their lives.
Children may lose the deadbeat parent family
When the non-custodial parent is not around for the children, the custodial parent will have a hard time explaining constant absences. Consequently, the children will lose the support they should receive from the former spouse’s family. So if your ex-abandons your children, they may lose important people in their lives.
Society can be cruel
Deadbeat parents don’t think about how people think of the children they abandoned. Children of deadbeat parents sometimes wear lower quality clothes and a broken heart. Even when the child is clothed and well groomed, people may pity them because of a parent, in most cases, the father, is not around.
Low self esteem
Children of deadbeat parents struggle with low self-esteem. After losing half of their family and living a lower quality of life, they look around and realize they are missing out. In some cases, these kids will develop unhealthy relationships because their expectations about how others should treat them are very low. These children deserve more. They deserve a parent that will provide them with a loving relationship and meet their basic needs.
If your former spouse has become a deadbeat parent, contact Salt Lake City child custody attorney, and protect your children’s legal rights. An experienced family law attorney can represent you in all aspects of child custody and child support. Your former spouse should provide your children with the emotional and financial support they need. It’s vital you speak to an attorney and explain your current situation so that you can determine the best course of action. Call us today and schedule your initial case review with Salt Lake City family law attorney Christopher M. Ault.
