“It would have been more lucrative to set up a shoeshine stand.”

“Try not to knock her up.” - SO MUCH this.

My son is 18. His father hasn’t tried to contact him for about 8 years now, the last contact we had actually was a notice stating that my ex applied to have his child support obligation terminated since the kid is 18 (except still in high school). Which, doesn’t matter because he’s so far in arrears because he was…

Jesus Christ. Get out of Portland, immediately. Of course you can't pay child support; you live in an insanely expensive town doing a job that hey, I would LOVE to do except I have bills and kids and zero support from their father in 19 years and I also live in Portland, so I have to have two jobs that I wouldn't mind…