daddy - the heart of the issue

Investigating the law, culture, and prejudices effecting families from a UK perspective

Saturday, November 20, 2004

Today I feel depressed

I got to speak to my 4 year old boy today. His mother has obducted him and taken him to another part of the UK. Unfortunatly the nature of the being rather injust at the moment means taht a long battle to bring him back will now begin.

He seemed well but soon did something that no human has ever done before - he saddened me into total silence.

You see he was telling me I had "been naughty". It seems taht he has been having bad dreams and that he really thaught he saw his mother and I fighting yesterday. The professionals say that his mothers violent outbursts at people including a number of physical attacks on me will not harm him.

Clearly he is deaply troubled by these dreams and will likely continue to be untill we can get him home again.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Telegraph | News

Telegraph | News: "As an IT Project Manager with a Computer Science degree I find this staggering. I have a daughter who lives with her mum, who has applied to the CSA. They have now taken 12 weeks to calculate how much I need to pay, despite the fact that the formula is:
15% of (Net Pay -15% (for my other child) )
I can work that out on the back of an envelope in one minute. Unfortunately due to the fact that any voluntary payments I make will only count if my ex wife verifies them, which I am afraid I am unable to trust her to do, I cannot make any payment for the upkeep of my daughter. I have been putting the money aside each month but cannot do anything with it. The CSA will not accept the payments in advance as they have no will or ability to take the money and let me settle up any difference once they finally do the sum themselves. So I now have £700 which I would like my daughter to benefit from now but she can't. As many fathers will know, once my wife finally gets the money (which will probably total well over £1000 by the time they have worked it out) I can look forward to seeing her fly off on a nice holiday.
Andy Tuke, Bristol"
Now how is that in the childs best interests? I ask because there is sertainly no justice in it.