Check the figures out - Absent Parents Should Pay Their Way

[magicfairy]

I thought the system was so blatently unfair (Dad has to pay set $$ based on his income, regardless of what it costs to actually keep a child and what else he does for that child) that when I split with my son's Dad, and found out IRD expected him to pay me $160 a week (he had a good income) that I came to a private arrangement that he would pay me $50 a week, which I thought was fair.
I don't imagine many mums do this though.
I was working so I had that option. I would have liked the $160 but I thought it was morally wrong, even if legal.

If you are on the DPB then what Dad pays goes to the government and Mum just gets the standard benefit.

So the good Dads end up payin for the bad ones.

[Ozzie]

So the good Dads end up payin for the bad ones.

Count me in!

Even if she did get a job, I have no hope of a private arrangement with her, she sees it as she has a right to my money.

Dunno how she arrives at that, sort of my privalidge to give it to her or sumthin.