to ask if literally anyone feels they are paid adequate child maintenance? I'm feeling desperate

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Just that really. I’m paid 570 but it won’t even cover half of the nursery fees let alone wrap around care and everything else.

Not only that but it’s not even guaranteed so I can’t rely on it… and that’s fucking awful as I should be able to have some
assurance that I won’t be left entirely to raise a child that is half someone else’s.

I know people have it worse, it’s not a race to then bottom. I’m just dreading dc starting nursery in autumn and dont know how I will manage. Is anyone happy with what they get for maintenance? Ever? It feels so shit.

Bullying tactics of men haters.

Delusional. It's not "hatred" to state that men should be responsible for 50% of the cost of raising children they created.

You sound as unhinged as the man who reported Ms Creasy to social services for "persecuting men" because she objected to VAWG.

Don't tell me. Did you sacrifice an outstanding career at minimum wage to take care of your children and want to be supported for life like you had any future?

Why do you keep repeating this nonsense? Many single mothers earn more than their ex-husbands, and probably a lot more than you do.

In extended use: sufferings and penalties involved in maintaining a particular (usually moral or ethical) position or point of view. In later use frequently: exaggerated self-sacrifice.

You mean like the poor little menz who are being persecuted by evil women, telling you their "horror stories" as you put it, about the mothers of their children expecting them to pay towards the costs of housing and feeding their children? Poor, misunderstood little things, hounded to pay a pittance towards raising their children.

I would be interested to know just how much tax @taxpayer1 actually pays, given their claims that single mothers are all claiming benefits that they are allegedly paying for. I have significant doubts that they are even a net contributer to the tax system based on the implausibility of some of their claims on this and other threads.

Indeed.

It is an insult, like "bossy", usually levelled exclusively at women who dare to assert themselves, particularly if they are objecting to misogyny.

Anyone who has a username of "taxpayer" is a twat. I'm a tax payer, I don't feel the need to remind people every 5 minutes.

Yeah it’s the same as posters announcing “ man here “. They obviously expect some special treatment or status, as if their opinions should be given more weight because they are Special.

Im pretty sure I pay a lot more tax that a certain poster on this thread. But that’s not relevant because child maintenance isn’t about how much the RP earns. It’s about how much taxable income the NRP has , how many children they have and how many nights they have them.

It’s about them ( nearly always men ) making a financial contribution to the costs of raising their own child. The child they chose to make .