A Response to the Comments by Salt.

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.