As a single father, I never missed a child support payment, even before it was court ordered, even when I lost my job. When I got a better job I renegotiated and paid more.
But child support is only a necessity because our country would rather sustain a class of parasitic "owners" who have to make greater profits year after year. The courts are part of this apparatus that steals value from all workers. Another part of the apparatus is carcerial punishment. Another, systematic racism. All are intrinsically connected.
He is forced to pay child support and then incarcerated when he doesn't. Because of artificial scarcity, our politicians would rather transfer money to wealthy donors by sending weapons that arm a genocide than to make sure children are properly taken care of with healthcare, education, safe and abundant living conditions. This necessity is enforced by the violence of a legal cartel, and that violence is used against BIPOC workers at much higher rates of than on white workers.
The individual conditions are often more specific and contradictory. For example, Mr. McCrary was a child celebrity and perhaps was somewhat wealthy himself. But he was still a worker, albeit a creative one, whose creative work generated millions and millions in profits, more than enough to support his children but instead are gobbled up in the coffers of TV execs, reinvested to make millions and millions more in interest, rinse and repeat.
Yet this racist, barbaric system is so well tuned to alienate and destroy people's innate humanity, that it generates suckers who defend it endlessly, asking bad faith questions ad nauseum like some snot nose second string junior varsity debate club dingleberry