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Divorce involving children is always very difficult, especially when they’re quite young. They don’t understand why their parents no longer want to love together and can sometimes blame themselves for the break-up. It’s important to make it clear to your children that they’re not responsible for any relationship breakdown and that both parents still love them.

Equally, supporting your children financially is important too. If the parent with care (PWC), usually the mother, is receiving benefits then the C.S.A. will get involved and demand money from the non resident parent (NRP). However don’t think that all of this money will go towards the children, because it won’t. The job of the C.S.A. isn’t to ensure that money gets to your children, it’s to collect debts on behalf of the government to make up for the benefit they’re paying the mother. Much of that money goes to the government, not your children or their mother.

Therefore you should need to ensure that your children are supported financially, as bringing up children can be very expensive. When they’re of a school age it can be even tougher as their school accessories and uniforms can run into hundreds of pounds per school year. For example, many schools insist on having branded personalised clothes with their school’s name on them, making them more expensive that regular clothes of the same type and colour.

This means a jumper that should cost £5 normally can cost several times that amount. With the C.S.A. keeping most of the money they take from you, you should help out with these costs if at all possible.

Clive Bellmore

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Parentline Plus are a charity for parents, and they’re appalled that local authorities aren’t doing enough to help parents who are going through traumatic divorces throughout the UK.

A report titled: “Love your children more than you hate each other: The impact of divorce and separation on families” calls for more help towards parents who are warring with each other during break-ups.

One mother who’s been through divorce told Parentline Plus:

The first two years I spent crying most of the time. It takes a long time to heal and you cannot help but involve the children in the upset.

Parentline Plus used the data from 20,000 calls they’d received between October last year and March this year, with nearly 2,000 of those calls being from parents asking about divorce. More than that number again asked about the impact of divorce upon children, and the behaviour of children caused by the divorce.

Parentline’s Suzie Hayman stated:

There is a real risk that lone mothers and their children could end up with serious financial problems.

It was really clear from our data that parents did not want or mean to cause harm to their children, but that their own emotional state interfered with their ability to do their best for the children.

Parentline seem genuinely interested in how divorce affects children and parents alike. It’s a shame that other government funded bodies, such as CAFCAS or the Child Support Agency, weren’t as caring as they are.

Clive Bellmore

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As if the Child Support Agency don’t receive enough money from fathers, their employees have been rewarded with a massive share of the £128 million in bonuses that the government has handed out to civil servants last year. The Tories have branded this a ‘money for nothing culture’ and are said to be ‘horrified’ over the figures.

The CSA received £3.7 million in bonuses for its incompetent staff as part of the £36 million given to the Department for Work of Pensions, the same body that lost the personal data records of 25 Million people recently when they POSTED them through Royal Mail.

Tory MP Philip Hammond stated:

Many families finding themselves squeezed between stagnant earnings and soaring living costs will be horrified. With the Government failing on so many fronts, this looks like a ‘something for nothing’ culture.

Michael Fallon, part of the Treasury Select Committee, found that the Revenue and Customs department was a pathetic failure.

It appears to be rewarding failure. Complaints about the tax credits system are at the highest level for five years and there has been a considerable deterioration in its VAT service.

Yet senior staff have received on average a 60 per cent increase in bonuses. These payments appear completely unjustified.

It’s good to know where all of our taxes are going isn’t it? Not only is our money being wasted and the people wasting it are incredulously incompetent, but they’re also being financially rewarded for inability to do their jobs.

Clive Bellmore

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The Fathers 4 Justice were at it again this weekend when they climbed on the roof of the deputy leader of the labour party’s house, Harriet Harman. The two protesters were dressed in their standard F4J super hero outfits, this time as Captain Conception and Cash Gordon.

In true F4J style the duo garnered a massive amount of media website with their protest and are looking to force the government into changing the way that fathers are treated in the UK. Currently, thanks to the Child Support Agency, fathers are treated as cash cows rather than as fathers. This has led to a great many complaints against the CSA from different sources.

Clive Bellmore

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This video from Bhangra Man highlights the plight of fathers in the UK who have to fight to see their children. It tells of how the child support agency and CAFCASS care only about the money you give and about how the mother should receive it.

Fathers are seen as cash cows for the impoverished single mothers, leading to many fathers committing suicide over the potential bankruptcy they face and the fact that they cannot see their children.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJpHnbgQXrU]

Clive Bellmore

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A father facing the prospect of losing his house due to the CSA enforcing a DEO (deduction of earnings order) on him for over £500 tried to explain the situation to them. They had already sent him correspondence to the wrong address so he hadn’t been able to reply to them when the demanded that his employer deduct the money from his pay, meaning he couldn’t pay for his and his ex-wife’s house.

His attempt to tell them about this fell on deaf ears as the woman cut him off. He was obviously very angry about this, so much so that he made this video of the phonecall and uploaded it to viral video site YouTube. He even animated the video himself using images of Paul McCartney and vicious ex Heather Mills.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOi2fvKbYSU]

Obviously by making the woman from the CSA out to be Heather Mills he’s pretty much assured himself of winning support, she is Britain’s most hated woman.

Clive Bellmore

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Child Support Analysis is a website that makes a point of exposing issues related to the CSA, or at least it did, as it’s now closed for business. All of their past stories are still available on the website however.

It’s a shame this website isn’t being updated anymore as it contains links to a seemingly endless supply of documents related to the formation and governing of the child support agency. The website began in 2001, becoming a blog in 2003 and was updated regularly until October 2006.

The Internet needs more sites like this one, and I aim to ensure the information and help this site and many like it offered is not lost over time. Free help and advice in dealing with the CSA should be available to all.

Clive Bellmore

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It seems that the child support agency’s incompetence has spread across the Internet like wildfire, so much so that another CSA complaints website (www.csahell.com) has sprung up chronicling their fraudulent and callous deeds. CSA Hell feature stories of the most incompetent actions from the child support agency, complaints people have sent in and even videos about them.

I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on this website over the next few months to see what they come up with, and more importantly whether the CSA themselves take note.

After all, everyone wants them to actually improve so that children get money. That’s not too difficult is it? Yet the CSA seem intent on stealing from the children instead.

Come CSAHell.com, give them hell!

Clive Bellmore

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This is the second part of the Michael Cox story filmed by GMTV as he tries to get a resolution from the child support agency.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXxcjRcc9P4]

Good luck Michael, I know exactly how you feel.

Clive Bellmore

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Nothing can be more harrowing than having the CSA demanding money from you when you simply can’t pay it. Michael Cox is one of thousands of fathers in the UK who are being persecuted by the evil, faceless child support agency. This is the first part of his story.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1a8aLxbnIg]

Clive Bellmore

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