Child Support Should Be Based on The Opposing Parent's Involvement

In my personal opinion, the cost of child support is becoming unethical. Why make a person who is actively involved in their child's life pay child support to the mother simply because they aren't married? Isn't living in the house with them enough? I feel as if child support should be based on how often the opposing parent spends with the child and what he buys for the child. It should be based on what they're helping the primary parent with and what they aren't helping the primary parent with. 

Another major issue I feel like needs to be addressed is the fact that people who make way more money generally in life have to pay an unethical amount of child support. For instance, I came across an article about a celebrity who was paying his child's mom 20,000 dollars in child support a month. It doesn't matter if you live in the hood or if you live in the Beverly Hills, it doesn't take 20,000 dollars to raise a 2 year old.

I feel like every government should make more reasonable laws when it comes to how much child support people pay, not base it completely off the opposing parent's income.

Is the American Dream Leaving America?

In "The  American Dream Leaving America?", Kristof states that the traditional American dream of basically being educated to the point to where you can make a reasonable, honest living and live comfortably is leaving America. He's trying to get people to understand that as time changes, we have less of the resources we had for people to get a proper education. America used to be top ranked as one of the most dynamic countries when it comes to providing mass education. Now we are slowly but surely plummeting. Now we see that other countries are slowly but surely climbing the ladder to a better economy by having better and more resources for education.

I personally agree with Kristof. I believe that America is making it harder by the year for people to obtain a proper education to be able to live comfortably. First of all, they make college expensive. People cant afford it. Then more so, people are discouraged to even go to college just for the simple fact that when they graduate, they'll most likely be spending the rest of their lives paying for their education. What's the point in that?