Personally I think they should have done more than this : )

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010710/ts/crime_children_dc_1.html

MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A father of nine imprisoned for refusing to pay child support will be barred from having any more children for five years unless he changes his ways, Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

The divided court turned down an appeal of the unusual sentence, which prohibited David Oakley -- who fathered his children with four different women -- from having more children during his five-year probationary period.

Having served a sentence for not paying more than $25,000 in child support, Oakley could be returned to prison to serve out a suspended six-year term if he fathers another child.

The four-judge majority reasoned that if Oakley had been ordered to spend the six years in prison, that would made it difficult for him to father children anyway.

Citing the crisis created by ``deadbeat parents'' that has relegated many children to poverty because of the chronic failure of many fathers to fulfill their obligations, the court upheld Oakley's 1999 sentence.

Dissenting Judge Ann Bradley said the sentence violated the ''basic human right'' to have children.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

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It isn't so much that he cannot have more children, it's just that if he does he goes back to prison. Thus this would make him a deadbeat dad again for the new child as well.

Seems to me he should just stay in jail. Wouldn't that be cheaper than doing all the DNA testing should a woman claim he is the father of her child?

Evidently he doesn't have a reputable brain, just the ability to reproduce. And talk women into the sack, of course.

I think the women should bear some responsibility for this type of situation. After all, if they hadn't fallen for his BS, they wouldn't have these hungry mouths to feed, would they? Or did he marry all of them? Hmm, even then...

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Maybe his hands aren't what should be tied to the bedpost.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001