Csa

[spathiphyllum]

If a mother chooses not to put the fathers name on their child's birth certificate should she still have the right to claim CSA?

[KARL]

This is a question which is relevant within the new reality that is today's western society. A lot has been done to equalise the position of men and women, and rightly so, and also to protect children and other vulnerable "categories" of people. But much remains to make it an equitable situation.

It has been necessary to improve women's standing from the gross inequality which existed not long ago. However, perhaps at least partly due to the concentration on protecting women, there is some evidence that new imbalances/unfairness have been created in some ways. In the example you mention, it would no doubt be said that the right to claim is there so that the child is provided for - the famous self regulation issue arises again: Will the mother spend any funds exclusively on the child and not herself benefit in any way ? Is it really consciously intended that the father has no right to recognition ? Is there no concern about the real possibility that the mother deliberately conceived without being certain the father to be wanted a child - happens a lot even also when she knows he does not ?

[Rockrose]

It depends on the reasoning behind not wishing to put the name on.

[spathiphyllum]

I know the woman has all rights to claim in the current system, and so she should really.. but if she refuses to identify the father on the birth certificate, should she morally have the right to claim CSA from the father? If the father wanted to be recognised on the birth certificate officially?

[Rockrose]

It depends on the reasoning behind not wishing to put the name on.

[calmck]

If the father is not named on the birth certificate how can the mother claim as he is not on record as the father

[andres]

From 1946 when family allowance started it was always paid to the mother. Used to be 5/- weekly for second and subsequent children.
The payment to fathers was overruled in favour of payment to the mother .