NO - REBECCA KINGDOM-KRUSZEWSKI communications officer, Families Need Fathers
Families Need Fathers welcomes the Child Support Agency's move to abolish their "naming and shaming" web site. For an organisation whose purpose is essentially to protect the child, it is hard to see how the public humiliation of parents could possibly be appropriate. All parents have a duty to support their children financially, but this scheme would only have fuelled hostility between separating parents.
YES - BILL HIBBERD, director, The Parent Organisation Ltd
I don't have a problem with parents being named. There are of course exceptions, but a lot of the time it is just down to the fact that some fathers don't want to pay so I don't see why they shouldn't be named. But the problem is that the parents who don't care enough to pay the money won't care about being named on a web site they are never going to look at. And you have to make sure you name absent mothers as well.
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