How do you help your child deal with perpetual disappointment of the deadbeat X (father in this case) who fails to turn up on time for custody visits and when child is in his custody on Saturday fails to take him to his designated activities eg swimming and tennis etc? During half term, X told our DS of 7Y at 8am that he would collect DS at 5:00pm from his drama school at the opposite end of London from home. At 5:30pm the drama school phoned me at work to say DS had been sitting there for 30 minutes. When I called X to ask what had happened? He said "It's not my job!" X had changed his mind, didn't inform anybody and doesn't give a F about anybody but care about himself. X is on a 6 figure salary in the NHS and pays zero for DS and won't take him on holidays or expend any effort parenting him on a day out. DS is very affected by the acrimonious divorce and pretending daddy is lovely doesn't cut the mustard when he can't be arsed to collect you when he doesn't feel like it. My lawyer said there's nothing legally I can do apart from pursuing a 10k claim that he's an unfit parent.
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