Child Support
October 26th 2006 06:43
Why is the child support system so against men? It is so unfair, and although the Federal Government has finally started to look at this issue, a lot more needs to be done.
In a lot of child support cases in Australia, men are forced to hand over a large amount of money to the mother of their child/children, without knowing exactly what the money is being spent on.
Because of the amount of money given to the mother, undoubtedly there is a large proportion that is spent on the woman. Why should the man still have to support his ex-wife? When they are divorced, that should be the end of it.
The whole purpose of child support is to help pay for the costs of raising a child. These costs should be equally divided between both parents. Both parents are responsible for the child, not just the father. So why is it that the father has to pay ALL costs incurred by raising a child, as well as giving money to his ex-wife to support her?
Then, to make matters worse, in a lot of cases, the father has very limited access to his child/children. On top of child support, they are expected by many women to pay ALL of the travel costs associated with having access to his child/children.
Many fathers who pay child support are struggling financially in this country and find it impossible to bear the extra burden of travel costs to see their child/children. Unfortunately, many men are financially unable to seek legal help to rectify this problem.
The ultimate losers in these cases are the child/children. Children should and need access to both parents on a regular basis, unless they are put into danger by a parent.
Mothers who don't work and stay at home, even if their child/children are at school most of the day, get extra financial support from the government for having a child/children. Why should fathers and tax payers pay for women to sit at home or go out for pleasure when most people need to work for a living, especially when these mothers make just as much or if not more than the average wage earner?
I plea to the Federal Government to step in and make the system fair before another father commits suicide due to the hardships experienced because of the unfair child support system.
In a lot of child support cases in Australia, men are forced to hand over a large amount of money to the mother of their child/children, without knowing exactly what the money is being spent on.
Because of the amount of money given to the mother, undoubtedly there is a large proportion that is spent on the woman. Why should the man still have to support his ex-wife? When they are divorced, that should be the end of it.
The whole purpose of child support is to help pay for the costs of raising a child. These costs should be equally divided between both parents. Both parents are responsible for the child, not just the father. So why is it that the father has to pay ALL costs incurred by raising a child, as well as giving money to his ex-wife to support her?
Then, to make matters worse, in a lot of cases, the father has very limited access to his child/children. On top of child support, they are expected by many women to pay ALL of the travel costs associated with having access to his child/children.
Many fathers who pay child support are struggling financially in this country and find it impossible to bear the extra burden of travel costs to see their child/children. Unfortunately, many men are financially unable to seek legal help to rectify this problem.
The ultimate losers in these cases are the child/children. Children should and need access to both parents on a regular basis, unless they are put into danger by a parent.
Mothers who don't work and stay at home, even if their child/children are at school most of the day, get extra financial support from the government for having a child/children. Why should fathers and tax payers pay for women to sit at home or go out for pleasure when most people need to work for a living, especially when these mothers make just as much or if not more than the average wage earner?
I plea to the Federal Government to step in and make the system fair before another father commits suicide due to the hardships experienced because of the unfair child support system.
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I am a mother, currently being backed into a corner having to let my daughter's biological father have contact with her after 3 years of no contact. I am now married with a baby on the way, I work full time and have done so since my daughter was 3. My daughter has been at school for 2 years now.
My ex does not work, has never offered any financial assistance in the raising of our daughter, I have never asked for any. Is this fair???
He gets to dictate when he wants to see my daughter but yet he was the one who ceased contact with her 3 years ago and now because I made an application to the courts to have her surname changed from my maiden name to my married name, he wants to see her again. Because he doesn't work, he has received Legal Aid assistance and because I earn $40,000 a year (before tax) I am unable to receive assistance and have paid already $10,000 in private solicitor fees and that's not the end of the fees yet.
The legal system really doesn't work for honest hard working mothers in my situation....I work full time, he doesn't and doesn't support my daughter in any way, but yet.....he still is entitled to all of his parental rights...