Bad Omen

Another article from yesterday in the Times about Patrick Parkinson, who designed the Australian child support system, flying in to voice his concern over C-MEC (the organisation replacing the CSA.)

"There is a great danger that child maintenance in Britain will now be seen as voluntary, that nonresident parents can decide whether or not they want to support their children,” he says. “The second danger is that the resident parent, usually the mother, ends up acquiescing to the first offer made [by the father] on the grounds that at least they will get it."