Let's be fair...

The Government have indicated an intention to get tough with fathers who don't pay child support for their children - imposing curfews on them regulated by tagging is one suggestion. Whilst I can't see this having any real effect, it is clearly right that fathers should be made to fulfill their legal responsibilities, but I hope the Government are going to be even-handed about this, and be just as tough on mothers who fail to fulfill their responsibilities. A lot of fathers who don't cough up the ackers, do so because they are not getting what they consider to be proper access to their children. It's a terribly difficult aspect of family law, but there are so many subtle - and not so subtle - ways in which estranged parents can make life difficult for each other, and there is a general feeling that the custodial parent, invariably the mother, has more of these weapons at their disposal, and in general can get away with using them.