Man who fathered 30 kids says he needs a break—on child support

[Recursion]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-fathered-30-kids-needs-break-child-support-140439765.html

Desmond Hatchett, 33, of Knoxville has children with 11 different women, reports WREG-TV.

The state already takes half his paycheck and divides it up, which doesn't amount to much when Hatchett is making only minimum wage. Some of the moms receive as little as $1.49 a month. The oldest child is 14 years old.

Hatchett explains how he reached such a critical mass: He had four kids in the same year. Twice.

Back in 2009 when Hatchett was in court to answer charges that many of the mothers were not receiving child support, he had 21 children. At the time, he said he was not going to father any more kids, but he ended up having nine more in the past three years.

Are these really the genes we want perpetuating themselves?

I love the phrase, "He ended up having nine more"... yes, "ended up". Because there's absolutely no agency on his part here.

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Oh, dear God...

[Horse with no Name]

2. I have no pity here

None. n/t

[marmar]

3. He needs a condom.....that doesn't break.

[Arugula Latte]

14. He needs to get snipped.

Now.

[Blue_Tires]

4. I remember the first stories about this guy

IIRC his M.O. is to prey on the gullible teen girls way out in the sticks who don't know any better...

At some point the women involved (or their parents) have to start taking responsibility for themselves in enabling this mess...

[bluedigger]

20. I agree - where are the eleven pissed off fathers!

I think some community involvement is overdue here.

[Blue_Tires]

21. sadly many of their fathers are probably absentee

it's a perpetual cycle in a lot of communities

[LadyHawkAZ]

5. /facepalm

Trojan Man would like to have a word or 30 with him.

[maggiesfarmer]

7. Unfortunately, natural selection favors this particular male strategy

and will continue to do so until women become more selective over who they will breed with. this strategy will lead to numerous offspring, but each individual offspring we would assume has a lower chance of survival.

that's not to say that natural selection doesn't also favor the monogomous, father-stays-around strategy. this strategy leads to less children (capped at 1/9 months) but each child getting more parental attention is more likely to survive and reproduce themselves.

Dawkins discusses this more eloquently than i ever could

[Recursion]

15. I'll name one son r and the other K

However, r has never been a selection strategy among primates. Until this guy.

[treestar]

72. Well this guy is really living that out

But even rock stars don't have this many kids. What's so appealing about this guy? According to this theory, he must be the bomb! Chick magnet.

[Odin2005]

8. And this is why I have no sympathy for men who whine about child support.

[Little Star]

26. I was on my own with 4 young children and my sister was on her own with 1...

Neither of us were able to get child support and the laws were pretty strict about that too. There were just too many ways for the fathers to go off the grid with jobs that paid in cash so they always got the sympathy of the courts because they were not employed (ha).

It wasn't easy but we both worked two and three jobs and we supported our own children.

Neither of us bad mouthed the fathers to the kids and they ended up having pretty good relationships with their dads.

What's done is done so it was better for our children to just let sleeping dogs lay. We lived but it wasn't easy.

[catbyte]

9. He needs to be neutered.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!”

[TLM]

40. What about the women who keep getting knocked up?

Should they get their tubes tied as well?

After the 3rd or 4th time, can you still call it a mistake?

[undeterred]

67. +31

[Cali_Democrat]

10. This is nuts

[Poll_Blind]

11. I know a man who is a little older than me. He fathered 5 sons.

With the same wife and he supports them all. He's working his ass off to do it, and his house is crowded. But he's doing it.



PB

[KatyaR]

22. I can guarantee you that this guy has never ONCE thought of the

consequences of having sex. All he wants is to get off, the woman is just a means to do that.

Stupidity at its best.

[mythology]

48. Apparently the women aren't thinking of the consequences either.

It's stupidity all around and unfortunately the kids are going to be the ones to pay for it.

[tapermaker]

12. high sperm mobility is a bitch

maybe if he was branded on the forhead with big capital letters DANGER. Women would think twice about letting him into their bedrooms .Then again that might just turn them on more.

[LeftinOH]

13. Attention young ladies, do not f*ck this man:

Because he will get you pregnant, then split, and you will get no financial assistance from him.
Becoming just another one of some irresponsible asshole's many "baby mamas" is not a goal worth pursuing.

Seriously.

[TLM]

39. You mean don't fu*k him AGAIN....

or AGAIN after that.... or AGAIN after that...

[mainer]

16. This is evolution at work. Unfortunately.

The idiots are procreating.

[WI_DEM]

17. This is one case where I think the guy should be working three jobs if possible...

he helped bring all these kids in with 11 different women. He should make sure that they are getting enough support. Maybe he should consider a vasectomy?

[Blue_Tires]

60. Perfect karma would be him winning the lottery

all the mothers get paid, and he ends up spending his meager share on lawyers trying to fight the court judgements

[Darth_Kitten]

69. No, perfect karma would be him working his ass of to support these kids.

Sorry, losers and the pathetic women who mate with them deserve to have a hard time of it.

[Blue_Tires]

71. even if he made $50k a year

each kid would get less than $100 a month...

so there is ZERO incentive whatsoever for him to work harder or advance his career--He earns just enough to live, and the moms get pennies...

[hifiguy]

18. This fuckwit should be neutered.

Physically, not chemically.

[ZombieHorde]

19. I guess that is his reproductive right.

Reproductive rights are not just for people with money.

[Initech]

23. Who is he - Bob Marley?

[azurnoir]

34. hardly Marley had the money to support his kids and a cooperative wife

who at one time or another took all of them in and BTW they had an understanding marriage because reputedly Rita had a kid by another man while she was married to Bob

[Initech]

47. Didn't Bob Marley have like 30 something kids with like 10 different women?

I know there's a few that are Marley's true offspring but I remember reading that in a Rolling Stone article a few years back that he said he wanted to "have as many children as there were rays of the sun".

[azurnoir]

49. no he had 12, 2 of which were Rita's but he considered his

I think there were 4 women involved

[MerryBlooms]

24. Oh my gosh, there's just no excuse for this.

[tabbycat31]

25. I think several neighborhood tomcats have fathered less kittens than him

[badtoworse]

27. He should keep it in his pants for a while - nt

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Come again?

On second thought, dont.

[Shankapotomus]

29. Well, he can't use contraception

That's a sin!!!

[lpbk2713]

30. This puts irresponsibility on a whole new plane.

There should be a law against such deliberate and negligent stupidity.

[ZombieHorde]

52. Do you really want to restrict people's reproductive rights? nt

[CBGLuthier]

31. They need to invent contraception that women can take.

So they too can share the blame for being irresponsible.

[azurnoir]

32. speaking as a woman here I must ask

at what point do the 'baby mama's' bear some responsibility? I ask because I see quite a bit of condemnation here for Hatchett and it's deserved but little or nothing about the women involved, 30 kids by 11 moms averages to 2.72 kids per mom meaning he had more than 1 child by several of the women involved, so they did not figure out that he was a 'bad bet' to put it mildly?

IMO the responsibility should be shared and BTW I have no idea if welfare is involved or to what degree but it should be noted that in most states when the mother is on welfare child support is in reality remuneration to the state and does little to nothing to improve the child's life

[TLM]

38. Exactly.... thank you.... n/t

[azurnoir]

53. Thanks, seemed like someone had to say it

[cynatnite]

41. The moms are raising these kids more than likely...

So, I would say they are taking responsibility. Of course both he and the women could have used a little thing called contraceptives to avoid the side-effect of pregnancy.

So, neither didn't. A pregnancy resulted. Mothers exercised their right to choose by having the babies. The mothers are raising them and he is required to pay child support as would anyone else.

Shared custody is an option, but he may not be able to make enough time in the month to give these 30 children any kind of quality time.

I do wonder if he was honest with these women about his numerous other children.

[azurnoir]

50. again speaking as a woman and women are the one most likely to shoulder

the greatest responsibility for the children in these kind of situations not to mention the pregnancy and child birth women should take some responsibility for their reproductive rights IMO

[cynatnite]

64. Which is what I said. n/t

[dkf]

56. Well they made their beds as the saying goes.

It's not much of a big deal to him. Whatever he makes just gets divided a little bit more.

[treestar]

73. I wonder how many of them know about each other?

You'd think news would get around that you're having someone's 20th kid.

[azurnoir]

76. I'm thinking most of them did know about each other

even the ones where the relationships were concurrent, you'd be surprised (maybe), not that they tend to be complaicent about it though they usally go after each other rather than the guy involved

years ago I worked with a guy that could have been this guys 'big brother' so to speak, but the guy I worked with used to bring a photo album to work with him, he was 24 at the time and had like 10 kids by 7 different women, he was rather good looking and tried to use this as part of his come on, I had to ask wtf is this a breeding book or what? he claimed it was to show he was a "good dad" to his kids and dependable too and again

[NickB79]

33. And the world of Idiocracy moves one step closer to reality.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna watch "Ow My Balls!", go get a handjob at Starbucks and a burger at Buttfucker's.

[FarCenter]

35. There was a recent DNA study that concluded that the human genome has unusual number of defects

Due to the rapid expansion of the population over the last 10,000 years.

[TLM]

36. 11 different women....

So 11 different women made the choice to have sex with this known deadbeat.

And 11 different women made the choice to have this known deadbeat's kids... some repeatedly.

At what point do these 11 different women have to be responsible for their choices?

At what point does having sex with Desmond Hatchett, become essentially the same acts as taking a trip down to the sperm bank?


I'm not saying this loser has no responsibility to pay for his brood.

But if your baby mama number 11 and you know he’s a deadbeat who hasn't been paying for the last 29 kids... 3 of which are yours... and you decide to get knocked up again... who is to blame when, surprise surprise, he doesn't pay for number 30?

[cynatnite]

42. Do you think he would tell her he's got more than 2 dozen other kids?

I'm not saying the women have no responsibility here. Of course, they do. More than likely they're the ones that are doing the raising of the children. He is expected to fulfill his end of the deal by paying child support.

Of course, the man and the women involved should have used some kind of contraceptives.

I would think after baby number 10 or 15, the man would have asked himself if he should get a vasectomy.

[TLM]

45. Well it's on yahoo and in the courts....

So it isn't exactly a secret.

And this report says they knew back in 2009 when he only had 21 kids.

[cynatnite]

46. Thanks. n/t

[Texasgal]

55. Did the Mothers Know he was

a deadbeat?

[NickB79]

65. Deadbeat or not, did they not care about disease?

Even if they didn't care about getting pregnant, what about getting herpes, HIV, etc?

[Blue_Tires]

57. I can't find any info on the mothers

But I swear in the stories from 3-4 years ago, I read some of them were really young when he first met them...It's much easier to smokescreen an under-or uneducated teenage girl living out in the country...

[Darth_Kitten]

70. Who is saying they aren't responsible?

They all deserve each other in my eyes.

[RagAss]

37. Hahahahahaaa... I almost pissed my pants.

[cynatnite]

43. So, it never occured to him to have a vasectomy after baby number 10 or 15. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

58. He knows where babies come from by now

I think this is something he wants to be known for, for better or worse...Besides, it's not like the state can take more of his crummy paychecks...

Just pray to god some jerkoff reality TV producer doesn't start getting ideas

[KamaAina]

44. Yo, Desmond!

[Incitatus]

51. So I guess a college fund is out of the question. nt

[Poll_Blind]

54. This dude is WINNING the war to pass his DNA on to posterity.

Why...the fuck did I get a vasectomy after one child?

PB

[BlueIris]

62. WINNING indeed. nt

[treestar]

74. Indeed.

This guy must be the sexy, that's for sure. Maybe mothers 10 and 11 figure they want their kids to have whatever it is more than they need the money for child support.

[TBF]

59. Maybe a break from making babies would be a better plan ... nt

[BlueIris]

61. Jesus Christ.

And:



They're called vasectomies, jackass.

These poor children.

[Codeine]

63. I don't think it was Jesus, actually.

Dude didn't seem terribly interested in the ladies.

[RoadRage]

66. What about this jerks kids? All 30 of them...

I realize a large portion of the population doesn't have a father figure in their life.. but this jerk seems intent on having 30 kids, and not giving a SHIT about any of the kids he's fathering and not planning on being around to watch them grow up.

At what point can you call this gross neglect, and arrest him for this? Especially since some of the "women" he's knocking up are 19 - 20 years old. Sure.. they "SHOULD" know better.. but to be fair, they are having 1 - 4 babies.. he's having 30.

I have always thought that forced sterilization is not something that the government should ever be involved in... but then I read stories like this and wonder if there shouldn't be exceptions to a rule.

[MannyGoldstein]

68. Uh... maybe he could get rich writing a book on how to woo women?

Or have some sort of a home-study course? It'd make a great infomercial. Jerry Springer could emcee it.

I'm guessing he'd need some help with the writing, but WOW is he good at what he does well.

The proceeds could be used to help raise his spawn.

[XanaDUer]

75. He's like a one-man Duggar! Nt

[Marr]

77. Seems like all the wrong people are outbreeding the rest of society.

Religious kooks and morons.

Give it a few generations and the country will be nothing but religious zealots with their "WWJD" baseball caps on sideways.