Dear judge who is making my friend’s life miserable:

You weren’t there the day that the bottom of my friend’s life fell out. I was. That was the day she found out her husband was having an affair, and he was leaving her for the other woman.

Their relationship was rocky when they married, but she was pregnant and wanted to “do the right thing”. She wanted her baby to have two parents.

Four years later, her husband walked out, and the dream was over.

Fortunately, my friend is a really amazing, strong, gifted, beautiful woman. She fell in love again and married someone who treated her little boy as his own.

Unfortunately, her new husband made the mistake of serving his country in the military, which meant being transferred to — oh god, wait for it — Oklahoma. You declared that military families in exotic locations such as Oklahoma are “unstable” and awarded full custody of the little boy to the father who left the family, and his live-in girlfriend. For a “family-values” conservative, you have a really interesting interpretation of which situation a child should grow up in.

This morning, you dragged my friend to court and told her that she needs to pay a ton of child support, because she made the mistake of going to college and bettering herself and thus makes more money than Father of the Year does.

I’m not sure why you think it’s more important that my friend’s son live in Arizona than with the parent who didn’t abandon him, but you’re being a hell of a role model for desperate, pregnant women who wonder if “doing the right thing” is indeed the right thing…