[Power Cosmic]

Originally Posted by God.

A runaway dad is a dad who runs away, not a dad who isn't allowed to see their child/ren. Runaway dads refuse to visit and pay for their child.

Which is indeed a problem, just what Cameron is doing isn't helping the problem at all, just victimising a majority who have nothing to do with the crimes(well, moral crime anyway) he's going on(and on) about.

Besides, you're not really being as niave as to think that all this vitriol and hatred Cameron is stirring is going to affect just the runaway fathers, is it? It's the single fathers who're going to suffer the most.

Originally Posted by dr2005

Methinks David Cameron is starting to worry about his majority in light of recent (mildly embarrassing) U-turns (and calling them anything other than U-turns is resorting to technicality) and is seeking to reassert himself as being strong on justice - otherwise, you would have thought he'd do his homework better. While arguably "runaway dads" should be held to account if they do genuinely do a runner and abdicate all responsibility for the spawn of their loins, stigmatising an entire group with one brush is going to solve nothing and will probably only make things worse. As has already been pointed out, this is a far more complicated issue - like most of family law, it should be noted - than the PM makes it out to be, and making ill-judged statements like these does him no favours at all.

Yes, exactly . Every single day it's just another idiotic statement. Did you hear that they're refusing to give out the figures as to what they're spending on bombing Libya?...