Virtual signalling is one of the biggest markers of the Narcissistic Paradigm. This article will use child support and its enforcement as an example.
Child support is to provide support for the children of divorced parents. There are clear guidelines for courts how to calculate them. All income is included in the calculation, starting from regular salary all the way to lottery winnings, tips, bonuses, stock appreciations, etc... The law dictates that every year, the parents shall exchange their income information. All portrayed in the virtue of the best interest of the children.
States set up child support enforcement units. All it takes is a report that child support is not paid and here comes an 'army' (Narcissistic Pyramid) after the payer. Wages are garnished. Child support debt is not a dischargeable debt, even in bankruptcy. Interest accumulates. Passports are voided. Jail time is ordered.
The 'army' of child support enforcement unit operates under disguise of (On Stupidity) of helping children. 'Soldiers' of the army feel good about themselves for 'helping the children'. Forums are set up. This is Gulag Archipelago.
Official Reasoning:
Children need to be supported by both parents. It is not children's fault that parents have separated. Children must be shielded from the divorce and their level of lifestyle maintained. Not paying a child support is child abuse and punishments are as such.
This is not just someone's idea or one organization's opinion about how to solve this problem. This is the system. System that set up laws, statutes, family courts, enforcement units, and professionals to support and enforce such.
True impact:
It is undeniably true that child-support helps children. The children need resources for their sustenance starting from food, clothes, shelter all the way to education. Undeniably true.
Many parents receive child support and use them to support children and it truly makes a difference. Some parents exploit the system but that does not change the motive behind the system.
Supporting Children or Persecution?
So what happens when the payer of child support dies? The child support instantly stops. What does the system do to 'help' the children? What happens to stop the 'child abuse'?
Nothing!!! The system does not care at that point. The parent receiving the support is left alone, there is nowhere to go. If child-support-enforcement unit was involved, the case is closed. There is no law, no statute, no system in place to stop the 'alleged financial child abuse' when the parent dies.
While child support undeniably helps children, is the motive of the system truly to support children, or to satisfy persecutory Narcissistic Paradigm?
Food for thought:
Why is there no 'parenting time' state enforcement unit? Not paying child support is a crime with severe consequences. Yet when a parent is denied a court ordered access to his/her own children by the other parent, police does not get involved. One must go back to the court to file "Motion for Contempt". This takes months, most likely resulting in Parental Alienation and in money spent in legal fees. Is this child abuse? No. Does this get attention from the state? No. Is this in the best interest of this children?
If one of the parents operates from within a Narcissistic Paradigm, this system gives that parent a persecutory path to the other parent's finances. Go after the income, the stocks, the capital gains, the lottery winnings, show bank statements, see what you are spending money on, all in the virtuous best interest of the children.