Parallel fatherlessness in UK
Below is a link to an article by British social commentator Melanie Phillips. Although it’s about the UK Child Support situation. It appears to have direct parallels to the CS situation in NZ. So it may be of interest to NZers. Interestingly it was published in The Daily Mail - a mass circulation daily. Can anyone imagine the old NZ Herald publishing anything like this?
The bogus child support agency
The argument was that men were financially responsible for their children whether or not such fathers were part of the family household. This was surely a profound mistake. Men’s responsibility is to be committed parents who look after their children by actually living with them.
But the CSA formula reduced fathers to being merely walking wallets, and helped redefine the family unit as the autonomous mother and child alone, serviced through payments from a distance by absent men.
As a result, Tory expenditure-cutters lined up in an unholy alliance alongside the ultra-feminist left. The feminist case was that lone motherhood was a right, and that although men might be too awful to be husbands they nevertheless had an obligation to pay for the upkeep of their children.
The result was that the CSA helped fuel gross injustice, galloping irresponsibility and the accelerating breakdown of the family.
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Stephen, it’s a shame the whole article by Melanie Phillips couldn’t be published on this post for quick viewing….
It is interesting to see that the UK has not totally been overrun by feminists - well the Daily Post at least.
I think that Melanie should be here in New Zealand. In fact I would pay for her to be here publishing articles of such calibre in the NZ Herald and such.
It seems the UK is uncannily in the same predicament as were here in NZ are, except the UK has a spokeswomen (!) talking of the evil CSA.
If only something like this could be consistantly published to the majority of New Zealand, the other side of the story, or more accurately - the truth - would at least be available to the majority to justly contradict the tripe which our media continually feeds to the public.
Comment by Moose — Sat 26th November 2005 @ 11:25 pm