To: Will Quince MP
Child support should be child need calculated not based on income
Many non-custodial parents are struggling with the current payment system offered by the CSA.
The current system works out a percentage of earnings rather than what a child needs or including the non-custodial financial situation. Both parents should be held accountable for supporting their children, but this should only be for the benefit of the child. The current system is abused by custodial parents and can push the non-custodial parent into financial ruin or allow the custodial parent additional monies for their own personal use, which is not the function of child support payments.
There should be a cap on the amount a custodial parent can claim, a child's needs should be the main focus, not to be seen as a money making exercise. The amount that should be paid to the custodial parent should be based off residual income to ensure both parents have emotional and financial stability.
No parent should be paying to maintain a lifestyle of an ex partner, but maintain the health and wellbeing of their child.
Both parents should be held accountable for the financial responcibility of their child, not to have one paying for their child and ex partner.
Why is this important?
Father's normally have to go through the emotional suffering during a break up due to separation with their children, which is evident in the current suicide rates.
Children suffer when a parent is given access to financial domination, this allows parents to use their children as a money making exercise rather than being with the parent who can offer the most love.
We want to reduce children being used as weapons both financially and emotionally. If the acces to abusing a system is removed then children will not be born into a home that only see them as an insurance policy. Children will have no financial gain attached to them, thus reducing the chance of them being born for financial reward.
