Breaking the Jail Pipeline for Fathers

The jail pipeline. They told you signing the AOP makes you a father.

What they didn't tell you is it also puts you on a fast track to

jail. Here's how it works. Once the AOP is filed,

the agency has full authority to enforce child support. Miss a payment and interest stacks.

Miss enough and they drag you into court for contempt. The judge asks,

"Why haven't you paid?" But the game is rigged because if you don't

have money, you can't pay, and if you can't pay, they call it

refusal. That's how fathers get locked up, not because they're criminals,