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The article presents the authors' response to comments made by sociologist Robert Salt in his paper, "Child Support in Context: Comments on Rettig, Christensen, and Dahl." The authors share Salt's concern that too often persons tend to discuss divorce from the perspective of their own gender. In some cases, women may appear to be advocating for custodial mothers and men for non-custodial fathers, or they may be accused of doing so simply because they are women or men. Equally unfortunate, however, seems to be the tendency to discuss divorce from the perspective of their own ages. In other words, adults tend to address issues, which seem unfair to other adults and perhaps to ignore issues, which are unfair to children.

The article presents the author's comments on recommendations offered by sociologists K.D. Rettig, D.H. Christensen, and C.M. Dahl concerning child support. Their child support analysis follows the example of most of the material published in the family discipline as well as other academic disciplines, in that it is too reductionist in its approach. The author agrees with their basic premise that many custodial parents and children suffer economically following divorce. This is true regardless of the state the persons live in, as this problem has not been sufficiently resolved by the child support and maintenance awards of judges or by any of the child support guidelines.