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Originally Posted by lettie
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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Yeh there is definately should do something about absent parents the system stinks!! I would certainly make absent parents responsible for their actions becuase the lay of the blame is on those that actually take responsiblity & not those that do nothing, like my x whom i get no contribution in any sence.