By Lilly Kingsley
The more I deal with the ‘powers that be’ in the divorce process who would tell you that they have children’s interest at heart the more I believe the opposite. Children are nothing more than numbers to most child support agencies and the people who work in them.
Legislation has been written to supposedly protect the child and provide support that may otherwise not be forthcoming.
For a parent to not want to provide the best support for their child is simply disgraceful.
I live and work in Australia so can really only speak of the Child Support Agency here that puts itself forward as one of the best in the world and I have no doubt it is as far as collecting what is due and following the legislation.
Here of course is the problem, the legislation is a band aid program with one bureaucrat after another following political rhetoric and our children have become mere numbers. Australian children do not all cost the same to raise, rent in Sydney is some of the highest in the world, food is more expensive from area to area, children come from many backgrounds and are being damaged by the ‘legislation’.
I have clients being stonewalled by civil servants who when pressed simply say, ‘that is what the legislation says’ or ‘we are following the legislation’
When is the legislation going to be truly in the child’s best interest and not in the interest of the group who has the most political clout at the time? Children are not a calculable resource and as every marriage is different, every divorce is different and the way children are brought up is a decision made by parents at some stage of the marriage process.
As ‘legislation’ swings back and forth as a political tool it is the children that suffer both financially and psychologically.
By Lilly Kingsley
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