Update to unpaid child support.

Anon Imperfect Mum

Update to unpaid child support.

Edit: I didn't write in saying I was the most hard done by person and that's what people seemed to think. I wrote in because the child support system is messed up and needs to be fixed. I'm just frustrated at the system.

OMG! I am speechless at the responses to my post. Some of you seriously need a reality check and the way you speak is disgusting. Making crap up just baffles me because you don't even know half of it. First off I am no means well off. We don't eat out, I don't buy myself clothes shoes etc, I don't drink alcohol at all, I don't go out partying, our groceries are shopped with savvy ideas to ensure my child can have those extra curricular activities. I work so I'm not sitting on my arse on Centrelink and actually never have!(no I do not think that's what everyone does but that is what was implied in some comments) I have an auto immune disease but still get up everyday and work. Second would you send your child to see their father if there are domestic violence orders with your child listed? Funny thing is ive written in before about stopping contact and you know what everyone told me I was wrong for trying to facilitate contact. And I'm sure some of you who commented would have commented on my stopping contact posts. Would you send your child who had been smacked so hard it left a bruise and clear hand mark? Would you send your child when you know your ex does drugs and drink and drug drives. Has been charged with driving while under the influence recently. Has been in jail numerous times on drug chargers and got charged with manslaughter for killing someone on purpose? Would you send your child when you've spoken with ex partners since your seperation and the violence to them was so horrific they were hospiatalised for a week? Would you send your child when there is possible sexual abuse? Your child is receiving councilling for. I could write so many other things but you know what the point is im not being a spiteful cow I'm protecting my child from harm! I was that ex that thought he had every right to his child. Little did I know everything about him and what he had done and what was to happen to myself and our child. I was that person who tried to get him to fight for his children because I believed what he told me. And you know what? I will forever feel guilty for the stress and fear I put not only on the ex but on her children as well because I now realise just how much she was protecting them!
So yes he should pay child support to enable our child to do things. I got left with thousands and thousands of dollars debt just so I could escape. It wasn't worth fighting over I needed to get us out. Yes he should pay child support to pay for our daughter. I'm not sitting here drinking the money away or even spending it on me! I'm here giving my daughter what I can in life. No he doesn't pay any money for those children because they are either too old or the ex stopped collecting it. Does he stop paying to try and gain control back sure does! You know how I know? Because he has said numerous times he doesn't care what financial impact anything has on me I can suffer and struggle financially. Didn't matter that it would mean his child would go without. He just doesn't care.
So I hope that all you people that commented think before you judge someone when you don't even know half of it. And I hope that your child or yourself never have to experience what we have. Watching your daughter wet her pants and act out or verbally say she doesn't want to see her father. Once you've experienced this come back and tell me I'm in the wrong for being angry that he doesn't pay child support on time. This wasn't the first time and I'm sure not the last he's been months behind at times.
Btw it was not a work holiday because he made that clear too. He doesn't do tax return etc just so frustrated with the system and people took it upon themselves to attack me

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Just keep doing you babe... people need to start being booted off this page. It's ridiculous. So sorry to hear the full details of what you went through and that you even have to justify yourself to people you don't even know.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Just keep doing you babe... people need to start being booted off this page. It's ridiculous. So sorry to hear the full details of what you went through and that you even have to justify yourself to people you don't even know.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

This page is meant to be one of support not one to make up bits of the story and than attack people. It just saddens me that I have to even explain what we have been through and that people like that get to stay on a page where there's no rules regarding the way people speak. I know this page would be tough to monitor but seriously some of those comments were way out of line.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Don't justify yourself - ever.
Everyone always has different opinions and views, just let it be water off a ducks back.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Just angers me that people can make bits of the story they want to and attack someone when it's meant to be a supportive page.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

I was with you right up to the centrelink comment. I receive benefits and I can assure you I don't 'sit on my arse all day'.

I do agree that some of the comments were way out of line though. It was like some women picked 1 part of your post they didn't like and ran with it.
Empathetic and understanding people are few and far between on this page, especially on divisive topics like this. I'm all for differing opinions and respectful debate but I kind of think people forget that there are people on the receiving end of these comments.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

I wasn't meaning everyone on benefits sit on there arse all day. I said that because that was implied what I do in someone's comment! I know people on benefits that most definitely don't sit on there arse all day.

People are rude and so judgemental and this page seems to have no rules for the extreamly rude people.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Fair enough. It just came across as a bit of a jibe, though obviously that wasn't your intention.
I actually had my younger brother in my care for a while and our 'father' refused to pay child support in that time, leaving me to support my brother financially through high school with no help from my parents, so I completely get where you're coming from.
So often supposed 'dads' are let of the hook and mums have to pick up the pieces and are just expected to do it all on their own . It's so unfair.
Hopefully things get easier for you soon xx

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Anon Imperfect Mum

I do apologise if that's how it came across because that wasn't my intention. That would have been so tough for you! Such a lovely thing to take your brother in. But financially it's tough when the fathers aren't made accountable.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

I was so tempted to remove myself from this page after reading some of the ridiculous comments from spiteful moles! It makes me so cranky reading some of these grown women's comments, especially the pathetic lady (that's putting it kindly) who implied if u can't live without child support you shouldn't have custody of your kid. Sorry you had read them lovely. Take it with a grain of salt, you are obviously a selfless mummy who put their childs needs 100% before your own.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Thanks. I do the best I can. I try to let my child experience things in life I know they aren't an immediate need but even using child support to pay for that I'm clearly still paying for her every day needs.
I almost wanted to remove myself. This isn't the first time women have spoken this way on not only my post but others posts. It meant to be a place to come and vent/gain advice etc not to be torn down and attacked for your post. I was so angry at reading the comments and yes the one implying I shouldn't have my child if I rely on child support seriously annoyed me the most especially because I don't use it for every day things I use it so my daughter can experience things.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Don't ever feel like you have have to justify yourself. That low life who made that terrible comment isnt even half the woman and mother you are. Fancy her raising children with a disgusting attitude like that. Now I must stop myself before i have fully lowered myself to some of their levels. You are doing a wonderful job!

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Please don't feel like you have to justify yourself to random judgemental online people.
My children also don't see their father. He owes me 17k in child support. I have every right to be pissed. Not only because he chooses not to pay, but I'm pissed that he is THAT dad. But he only has himself to blame 😞

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