Now I Wonder Where The Father Is?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516745/I-survive-500-week-benefits-says-Birmingham-single-mother-eight.html

Do absent fathers no longer have to pay child maintenance?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Mothers with young children would hardly get the time to be off procreating with other men!! ///

I am sure that the men would be only too pleased to pay home visits.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// It's 'half caste', not 'half casts'. ///

Correction sp it's 'of mixed race' I thought that you would have known that.

[ummmm]

Quote him properly!!

//
sp1814
Sqad

Not that many people use the term any more, but I thought I should tell you...

It's 'half caste', not 'half casts'. //

[murraymints]

Totally irresponsible....

[DrFilth]

if hubby comes back in a few more years they will need a single decker bus not a car

[berniecuddles]

lol dr filth

[anotheoldgit]

Jordyboy9

/// By going public on this SHE HAS LEFT HERSELF WIDE OPEN to all she gets. ///

Mmmmm, ponders on this, but decides to make no comments.

[charlieuniform3]

Disgusting abuse of a woman again I see from the ususal crowd!

[Brenden]

Glad you did not enlarge on your last sentence agog - I have not one shred of sympathy for her - my sympathy is for the tax payers who have to pay through the nose for these feckless people.

[pixie373]

She looks after 8 children on her own, but is a selfish scrounger and it's all her fault? While dad is...?

[sp1814]

AOG

"Correction sp it's 'of mixed race' I thought that you would have known that."

No...re-read what I wrote. I said:

"Not that many people use the term any more"

Why did you miss that out???

[hc4361]

She wasn't in a single parent family when she had those children - she was with their dad who has chosen to leave them.
He may have been working throughout the relationship, the article doesn't say.

Unless he is unable to work through ill health then he should be contributing to the family.

Some of you are being very harsh putting all the blame of her.

[Brenden]

She had a choice hc.

[sandyRoe]

Who was it painted the picture, 'When did you last see your father?'?

[hc4361]

She had a choice to be a single parent?

[Zeuhl]

/She had a choice hc. /

Yes

she chose to have 8 children
then the father chose to leave her

other than the (IMO) excessive size of her family; how is this situation particularly her fault??

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "Do absent fathers no longer have to pay child maintenance?"

They do - but what they have to do, and what they do are often worlds apart.

A father not in employment may have a nominal sum affixed against him by the court - say £1.00 per week, so that when he regains employment, the payment sustem is already in place.

However, if, as is often the case, the father remains unemployed, his responsibillities towards his children remain undischarged.

[leahbee]

Now I know that I will get shouted down for saying this, but I think that she should be given injections to stop her bringing any more children into the world.
She is only 31years old and young enough to have many more which she should will expect somebody else to keep.
We are too soft with people like this. Just imagine the stick the kids will get at school.