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Originally Posted by accymel
 Im quite surprised at u lettie to insinuate that single parents are rewarded - where???????? cos i missed out then!!! The amount of times a single parent is condemned on the basis of a steroetype is unbeleiveable - i'd be rich for every pound someone make a quote like yours!!
U cannot tar all single parents with one brush - i did the 2 point 4 kids lifestyle, i've been married - it failed, & tbh my kids would be in a whole lot worse situation if it stayed that way also!! Do u know how hard it is & have u been one long enough?? Im on 8 years already but thats sods law of life & im a bloody good parent as best i can be!! There is a whole many more kids in 2 families that suffer in some cases more than the single parent one. While a very small preportion of parents chose single parent life, very vast majority end up in the situation from no choice of their own. relationships fail, death, work etc. |
Hehehe... Read the post. It is not implying that single parents are being rewarded but teenagers thinking that pregnancy and single parenthood are a career choice. Maybe I should have elaborated more but as my previous post also states that the father's family should be made to support the mother, I thought that this would be clear.
BTW, my mother was also a single parent, not by choice, but my parents made a damned fine job of bringing us up. We saw my dad every day, he contributed weekly to our family finances, took us on holidays and out at weekends. Just because my parents divorced does not mean that we weren't in a stable family unit. It is high time that absent fathers were made to pay and not through the pathetic CSA system where a lot of mothers do not see the money, but by DD straight from the father's wage or benefit into the mother's bank account. this would be relatively straighforward, involve less red tape and paperwork and DNA testing would be mandatory.
Like my earlier post said...... Draconian measures, but the softly softly method is clearly not working. What would you do???
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