[Currently]

You did get the shit end of the stick ... no complaints from me there.

I got the shit end of the stick because Maine's shining Human Services department decided that the mother was more fit to be a parent than I was.

This is a woman that I never married ... just the most expensive one night stand in the world. Long history of drug abuse and alcohol abuse.
Yet I was judged not fit to be my son's father.

In the time my son grew up, I got 2 BS degrees, started a masters degree that I am finishing at the end of the month. And helped 3 step kids get their respective degrees in which they are all very successful in their respective fields today.

My child support was fair, unfortunately, it was not used to support my son.
I paid for his insurance, all medical bills, his private schooling till he got expelled for drug use and all clothes and gifts.

Child support should be a 50/50 settlement.

Nothing pisses me off more than watching some sonovabitch bragging that he pays 20 dollars a week cause he is beating the system by working under the table.

On the other hand, there is a guy where I work who is paying 900 dollars a week for a 12 year old daughter. Now tell me with a straight face that any kid costs that amount of money.

Equal rights .... equal pay .... equal responsibility .... equal access .....

Maybe if that TRUELY did happen, you would not see guys going wacko and
killing off their entire families because they are going to lose everything they
ever worked for their entire lives.

The system as it stands is pure bullshit.

EDIT: I am not condoning the above behavior ... but I challenge anyone to prove that a man will have a fair shake in a custody argument.
Also there is no incentive for a man to "pony up" and pull his share of the load. This system is so adversarial that there has to be a winner and a loser.
The kids are the pawns and also are the ones that pay the worst price when the battle gets to be that bad.