As experience from other countries shows, parents who are allowed to beinvolved in their children's lives tend to support them financially.Children need and deserve more than cheque-book parenting.
They need emotional support from both their parents.
America discovered years ago that, when you discourage vindictiveparents from unjustifiably excluding the other parent, child support iseasier to collect. Taking this positive, more-balanced approach has alsosaved the US taxpayer billions in enforcement costs. And it is farbetter for children.
Yet our Child Support Agency still doesn't care if paying parents neverget to see their children. In fact, the agency's rules motivatevindictive parents to block access, which is crazy.
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