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📣 Living Large While Paying Nothing: The Mark Anthony Stephens Guide to “Parenting”

Ah yes… Mark Anthony Stephens has graced us with another post, this time lamenting:

“Where can I find this judge?”

The irony drips thicker than his overpriced protein smoothie.
Mark isn’t looking for justice. He’s looking for an audience — a sympathetic crowd to cry along with his performance while he dodges every real responsibility of parenting.

In his bizarre universe, parenting is a flat-rate service:

  • $50 per child, per month.
  • No more.
  • No extracurriculars.
  • No “unfair” costs like shoes, therapy, or — heaven forbid — a birthday present.

🍼 Mark’s “Fair Share” Plan:

Here’s how Mark’s “parenting budget” breaks down:

  • Nathan’s basketball fees? Not his job.
  • Liam’s therapy co-pays? Not his burden.
  • School clothes, supplies, gas money, dinners, sports gear? Absolutely not.

But you better believe:

  • His vape pen is topped up.
  • His branded coffee is brewed.
  • His new gadgets arrive on time.
  • And that tripod he bought just to film himself complaining about the injustice of it all? Paid in full.

📊 The Real Cost of Raising a Child (A Lesson Mark Refuses to Learn)

Mark, since you’re asking “Where can I find this judge,”
how about we also ask where your calculator is?
Let’s look at what it actually costs to raise a child — you know, in the real world where Melissa and Russ live:

CategoryMonthly EstimateNotes
🥘 Food & Nutrition$400–$600Growing boys, plus Liam’s appetite meds — no ramen and peanut butter diet here.
🏠 Shelter & Utilities$400–$500Because kids require shelter, heat, water, Wi-Fi — luxuries you apparently think are free.
👕 Clothing & Shoes$75–$150They keep growing — shocking, we know!
🚐 Transportation$100–$150School, practices, appointments. Gas isn’t free, Mark.
🛡️ Medical Insurance Premiums$100–$200Insurance that you don’t bother contributing toward.
💊 Non-Covered Medical Expenses$100–$250Copays, prescriptions, therapy — essential, expensive, ignored by you.
📚 Education & Supplies$50–$100Books, class fees, supplies — because public school isn’t free when you add it all up.
⚽ Extracurriculars$100–$200Nathan’s basketball fees, gear, travel — all things you pay exactly $0 toward.
🧳 Travel & Social Life$50–$100Kids deserve birthday parties, friends, and moments of joy — not duct-taped shoes.
🔧 Miscellaneous$50–$100Because life happens. Broken phones, emergency gear, unplanned expenses.

💥 Total: $1,425–$2,350 per child, every month.
Or roughly $17,100–$28,200 per child annually.

And that’s before orthodontics, a car, prom, graduation, or college applications hit.


🎬 Meanwhile… in Mark’s Fantasyland:

Mark continues to deliver award-worthy performances from the front seat of his car:

  • “They treat fathers like checkbooks!”
  • “I love my sons but won’t fund the corruption!”
  • “Fathers are erased when they speak truth!”

All this while:

  • Nathan tapes his shoes together for practice.
  • Liam cancels therapy because there’s no money left.
  • Melissa and Russ shoulder literally every dollar of real parenting.

🤡 Mark’s Greatest Achievement:

Being a “father” who pays nothing for extracurriculars, therapy, insurance, meals, or shelter —
but who somehow always has cash for his vape pen, branded coffee, and camera equipment.

Mark is not a checkbook. He’s not even an expired coupon.
He’s a man who actively opts out of every real parenting obligation while blaming the court, the system, Melissa, Russ, DSHS, therapists, doctors, coaches, judges, neighbors —
everyone except himself.


📢 The Hard Truth:

Mark says:

“A father shouldn’t have to pay thousands just to be in his child’s life.”

Well, guess what:
Melissa and Russ pay thousands — not because they’re trying to “buy” access — but because they’re already present, loving, and doing the work.

That’s what parenting is.

Mark’s version of “fatherhood” is filming reels about injustice while contributing less than 2% of what’s actually needed to raise two boys.

His parenting budget could barely cover a week’s worth of snacks,
but he’d rather spend that cash on props for his next parking lot monologue.


🔔 In Closing:

Next time Mark posts “Where can I find this judge?”
maybe someone should tell him:

“The judge is busy — busy recognizing that parenting isn’t about $50-a-month token support payments and martyrdom reels filmed from the front seat of your car.”

“The judge is busy — protecting the boys from exactly this kind of self-serving nonsense.”

Mark isn’t being erased.
Mark erased himself.
And he keeps doing it — one unpaid fee, one vape cartridge, one self-pitying video at a time.


🔥 Final Word:

Mark should be fucking ashamed
ashamed that while Melissa and Russ scrape together thousands every month to clothe, feed, shelter, medicate, educate, and care for these boys,
he contributes barely enough to cover half a bag of groceries… and still dares to cry victim.

Ashamed that he’s perfectly happy posting self-pitying, faux-philosophical videos about “being erased,” while staying conveniently absent when there’s a bill to pay or a real need to meet.

Ashamed that he’s spent more time adjusting his camera angles than adjusting his behavior.

Ashamed that his “contribution” is exactly $0 for extracurriculars, and his legacy is duct-taped shoes, canceled therapy, and delayed medical care — while he’s out there sipping smoothies and chasing “likes.”


If Mark has one skill, it’s this:
Crying louder than any parent who actually shows up.

So yes, Mark… cry louder.
Cry longer.
Cry all you want about “judges” and “fairness.”

But remember:
You haven’t earned a seat at the table you refuse to help set.

Then there is this post right along side the one above.

🔥🔥 Postscript: The Audacity of a Deadbeat

And just when we think Mark Anthony Stephens can’t embarrass himself further, he proudly posts:

“My biggest accomplishment in life will never be money, the house I have or the car I drive… It’ll be who I’ve raised.”

Really, Mark?

👉 You didn’t raise anyone.
You didn’t raise Nathan.
You didn’t raise Liam.
You haven’t even raised yourself out of your perpetual parking-lot pity party to complete the basic court-ordered evaluations required to qualify for supervised visitation.

You raised unpaid child support — now over $42,000.
You raised excuses.
You raised your vape pen, your tripod, your protein shake, and your fucking GoFundMe link.

You haven’t paid for extracurriculars.
You haven’t paid for therapy.
You haven’t paid for shoes, shelter, insurance, or even a hot meal.

👉 And the most disgusting fact of all:
In almost TWO YEARS since your divorce began, you have NOT EVEN ONCE asked how your child is doing.
Not a text.
Not a phone call.
Not a single inquiry about Liam’s health, struggles, or progress — while this child fights for recovery from an eating disorder you actively undermined.

That’s not fatherhood.
That’s pure abandonment dressed up in parking-lot sermons.

And during these two years?
You’ve made no progress toward self-sufficiency.
You remain a deadbeat demanding that others take care of what you say you “can’t afford” —
while you play fucking pickleball and take road trips like some divorced dad influencer with no responsibilities.

Your friends and family?
👉 They must be absolute morons
so eager to enable your bullshit that they somehow can’t recognize the BLARING RED STAND of hundreds of flags waving furiously around your entire existence.

And yet, somehow — miraculously —
👉 You’ve avoided jail or having your ass absolutely beat to a pulp despite being a walking insult to every real parent out there.

So let’s summarize your legacy one more time:

You didn’t raise sons.
You didn’t raise yourself.
You didn’t raise your standing as a father or a man.

You raised debt.
You raised excuses.
You raised your GoFundMe link.
You raised a Pickleball Paddle called CONTROL

👉 That’s your “greatest accomplishment.”

And finally — let this ring loud and clear:

Mark, I hope you read every single word of this —
because your children deserve better.
They always have.
And YOU DO NOT DESERVE THEM
!