The child support enforcement system in Oklahoma hurls poor parents into a virtually inescapable trap: ordering them to pay what they can’t afford, taking away their driver’s license when they inevitably fail to make payments then throwing them in jail where they can’t work. If a parent’s family pulls together rent, grocery and gas money to pay the court for incarcerating their loved one, or after the six-month sentence has expired, the parent ends up back on the street, burdened by debt and likely unemployed as a result of their incarceration. Without a job, this parent is likely to miss child support payments: more jail time, rinse and repeat. The child support enforcement system in Tulsa almost seems designed to keep parents from breaking out of the cycle of poverty and incarceration.