Posted by Ben @ January 19th, 2010 11:38 pm. Filed under: Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Miss E Mcfarland —
by Miss E McfarlandAbsent parents who did not pay for their children should be penalised. The CSA is not consistent and not harsh enough in enforcing the absent parent to pay on a monthly basis. Absent parents should be paying for the day to day finance of bringing up a child not the government. Parents who give up their careers to care for their children should be reimbursed by the absent parent if they are still in employment! Even if an absent parent is on benefit they should be made to pay a percentage of their benefit. I think if there were harsher penalties people would be more responsible and would think more seriously about contraception.
What Miss Mcfarland is asking for doesn’t really cover the various reasons why a couple might not be together anymore, but then she’s probably still harbouring a lot of hatred and bitterness towards her child’s father.
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Andrew reckons:
What worries me is that she says ‘would think more seriously about contraception’, which implies to me she didn’t want a baby. Presumably the child will never see this petition, so it doesn’t matter that this is a matter of public record, but it seems like contraception is as much her responsibility as his, and since she could choose to have an abortion and he couldn’t, and is in any case still getting the money, really she has no business feeling hard done by. I’m sure Miss McFarland has something to contribute to democracy but this isn’t engaging, this is knee-jerk soapboxing. I can only imagine the feeling, waking up one day and suddenly realising ‘oh, god, I petitioned the prime minister again’.
January 20, 2010 at 1:49 am