article_snippet.sent: Deadbeat and absent dads are one of the most serious and often overlooked threats to our collective well-being today.  
article_snippet.sent: Forget the school-to-prison-pipeline.  
article_snippet.sent: Lousy parents are the school-to-prison-pipeline; particularly symptomatic of this problem are absent and deadbeat dads.
article_snippet.sent: And let's face it: While it's hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for deadbeat dads, jailing someone for deadbeat dads debt makes it a little difficult to, you guessed it, earn money to pay their debt.
article_snippet.sent: Of course, the counterargument is: If we don't arrest them, how else do we make deadbeat dads pay up?  
article_snippet.sent: Arresting deadbeat dads is an extreme solution, and one that could be solved with less government intrusion, and more community involvement.
article_snippet.sent: If we continue to arrest and jail deadbeat dads, we can't be surprised when an armed police officer uses excessive and deadly force to arrest we continue to arrest and jail deadbeat dads.  
article_snippet.sent: While no one should be shot for failure to pay support, we're also training police that a warrant is a warrant and an arrest is an arrest.