Submitted on Thursday 7th April 2016
Published on Thursday 7th April 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 7th October 2016
Signatures: 891
Charge non-resident parents who evade child support payments with child neglect.
Current legislation does not recognise non-payment of child support as neglect. After a year of non-compliance separate criminal charges should be brought against such non-resident parents for child neglect.
Resident parents should also be able to prosecute non-compliant NRP for financial abuse.
Figures from 2011 indicate that 95.2% of parents who approached the Child Support Agency in order to access their legal entitlement for child maintenance were female. The failure to collect rates are astonishing. It is therefore a gender inequality issue.
This social injustice needs to be urgently addressed.The far reaching repercussions have to be legally recognised for both the parent with care and the child/ren when one parent fails to support their child/ren.
It is neglect and abuse.
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