Here is the bar that dads have an extremely tough time reaching... Shared economic responsibility (SER) The circumstance in which a noncustodial parent has a child with him/her frequently enough (at least 128 overnights annually) to be considered directly contributing to the child's care.

As long as the dad gets less than 128 overnights then he just visits his children. The mom technically, supposedly, has all of the economic responsibility. This is what the moms want because it will maximise the child support they can collect from the children's father.

Forget about any financial help for the dad because he has the children less than half of the time. I'll see my children well over 150 days over the next year. Every other weekend and one full half of summer vacation, Christmas break, and spring break they will be with me over night (24 hours a day). That is a lot of meals, entertainment, presents, etc. Does not matter. The mom gets the same amount of child support (the Max!) as if she was taking care of them 365 days a year 24/7. She gets the daycare support from the state, all the food stamp money for the children, and maxed out support from the dad. I have asked my children's mother if she would be willing to share any food, since she only has the children half of the time, over the summer vacation. Not a single crumb was offered. I asked the state for help and was told it (the food money) was only available to the mom because the children lived with her over half of the year. No splits, no help for the summer when they are with the dad half of the time. Hmm. I then sent a couple of emails to congressman Mike Rogers asking him if there was any help available but got no response.