Shared parenting is the best way to reduce unpaid child maintenance

Parents who are actively involved in their children’s upbringing are more likely to contribute financially and the Government’s plans to ‘name and shame’ parents who refuse to pay maintenance, as propsed in the CSA White Paper issued by the DWP, will fuel hostility between separating partners.

Parents who are involved with their children are more likely to support them financially. Likewise, non-resident parents who are denied a relationship with their children are more likely to refuse to pay maintenance. Tagging, removal of passports and ‘naming
and shaming’ is unlikely to change this.

All parents have a duty to support their children, both financially and emotionally, but
the government should be promoting the idea of shared parenting rather than supporting
the current system, which allows resident parents to neglect their children’s right to a full and loving relationship with both their parents.

The CSA is based on the assumption that one parent has all the care, the other
should simply pay. The answer is that both parents should do both. Encouraging and
supporting non-resident parents to spend more time with their children will reduce the
need for an agency such as the CSA.

Author: Families need Fathers
http://www.fnf.org.uk/

We ask: The above is so blatently obvious to everyone. Why do the government fail to take any notice of this common sense approach and all of the people and all of the organisations and the public who is ultimatly financing their computer blunders, staff bonuses and the million wasted on useless reports, advisors and studies? 

Should we collectivly be forcing this government out off office as unfit to govern?