October 24, 2012
Updated Oct 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM PDT
Russia is cracking down on fathers who don’t pay their child support, and the latest suggestion might be the cleverest one yet. Russian law enforcement officials could start printing photos of deadbeat dads on pizza boxes, according to Chief Russian Bailiff Artur Parfenchikov.
The country has already taken several steps to humiliate such scofflaws. Photos of “alimony debtors,” as they’re called in Russia, can be spotted on billboards, banners and online, UPI reports. The effect of public shaming has been astounding: the number of unpaid child support cases dropped 30 percent to 881,000 from 2007 to 2011, according to Russian news agency Itar-Tass.
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