He was doing so well up to now.

Ruby - why doesn't your daughters' father help to financially support his girls?

I agree with most comments on here, it should be 'absent parents'. In fact his comments have annoyed me so much I decided to send the PM an email via the No.10 website, perhaps others might also like to do so and maybe he may just rethink his recent attack.

BNN

rubytuesday wrote:

To write and publish such an emotive article/political speech on a day like Father's Day was crass, cheap and extremely insensitive. The vast majority of NRP fathers are decent, hard-working, loving Dads who do their upmost to contribute to and be a significant part of their children's lives - but it cant be easy when when you don't see them on a daily basis and have to make do with every other weekend.

So while Cameron has chosen to congratulate

single mothers, who do a heroic job against all odds

- I would like to point that that single fathers do an equally heroic job - but yet are often forgotten about.

Hear Hear Ruby, spot on! I love my girls and do my upmost to support them financially and emotionally. I walk them to school most days even if this means I have little sleep ( I am a shift worker so I sometimes get home late in the morning). I do this because I miss them and for them to have some normality. It also gives them time to chat to me about whatever they like. You are right its not easy when I dont see them and every other weekend is no compensation.
Havent read Cameron's piece and I wont now. Hate being stereotyped!

Thanks Popoliv and Tish.

I've also emailed the PM's office, and pointed him to this thread

Oh Hi Dave if your reading this thread .
I'd like to apply for the position of the Government Deadbeat Dads Divorce Tsar.
His Royal Hawayness

rubytuesday wrote:

Thanks Popoliv and Tish.

I've also emailed the PM's office, and pointed him to this thread

Yay, brilliant. Please do let us know if they grace you with a reply! Hmm, I wonder?? I was going to suggest that very same thing, but my phone ran out of battery at work and I couldn't post Home now though!! Good job Ruby

out of interest, how many of us have had call to contact our MPs over child maintenance or contact/residency issues? I have never felt the need to deal with my MP before but have been in dialogue since earlier this year with the announcement of the child maintenance reforms. I would be interested to know what input other wiki's MP's have had, how effective they may have found it and/or whether or not they at least felt they got a fair audience on issues such as contact/residency which are not easily resolvable by an MP but are issues which need highlighting from a legislative point of view.

It would be interesting to hear the responses you get from Mr C on this matter. Can you please post?