Why are men being sent to Jail for unpaid child support?

The working parents are paying taxes for the jails anyway, so if you aren't collecting child support...why are you going to pay even more to put him in jail?  Every time we turn around they are expanding the jails or creating new ones.  That is money out of the tax payers dollars and we aren't making enough to support an expansion of anything in this economy. 

I'm surprised if the judge doesn't order him to get a job within a certain amount of time and pay it according to what he's making.  Then that's when the man goes out and obtains these low paying jobs, so they aren't paying a lot in child support.  Why wouldn't you want to make more money for yourself and your child?  Why wouldn't you want to support your child?  You're thinking the money is going to the mother so you don't want her to have that much.  The mother's are the ones who are taking care of the child, so if the money goes towards supporting that child's needs, then so be it.  At least you know that the water is hot, clothes are on their back, a roof is over their head, food is in their stomach, shoes are on their feet, gas and car note is good in order to transport to and from school/activities/father.  I don't understand how a man wouldn't want to provide for his children.

I don't think locking them up is the answer to the problem of unpaid child support.  If there were more programs for men to go out there and go through some type of training and provided with a job, then they would probably get off the streets and do something more positive with their life, which would be beneficial to their children.  I would support a company or even the government if the money was used to better them and not hold them down.  I am not going to support expansions of jails to solve this issue.  Leave the jails to the real criminals(murderers, rapist, pedophiles, etc.)!

You have to ask....Why don't they pay child support?  Is it because they don't think the child is theirs?  Is it because they don't want children and its better to deny then to step up?  I thank God for the Maury show!  Maury has proven a lot of whose the father scenarios.  Some will never find their baby daddy because of their own irresponsibility.  A woman has to step up and be a mother if she gets pregnant, so she doesn't have a choice to deny the child, if she plans on keeping it and raising it.  If she feels she isn't ready, there is an option for adoption.  What if she never puts the child up for adoption and raises the child?  The man now has a responsibility to support that child.  When a child is given up for adoption, I believe both parents(if known) have to relinquish their parental rights.  If the man knows he fathered a child, he should be a man and step up and support this child to the best of his ability.  He was man enough to lay down and be intimate; he is man enough to get a job/career and support his child.  No excuses!!!