My exH transferred all our savings into his personal account and left me ten thousand overdrawn. Ds was a few months old. He went up to London in my car, dumped it at Heathrow and flew to a new life abroad in a country where there's no reciprocal agreement blah blah.
He's never paid a thing for our son, or seen him.
I managed to contact him once and he said that as he had left me 'all his possessions' and our tiny holiday let, (which took months and months to sell, meanwhile I had nothing, was already on long-term sick leave and was traumatised by his disappearance) he had left me well flush.
Don't even know where he is now. I found a photo of him online last year - he's wearing a wedding ring and was on a trip to London, wearing fancy shirts and sitting in restaurants.
My son is gorgeous. Such a merry, handsome and clever lad. I absolutely adore him and we are a very close. He would love to have a dad though...I have never dated a man since and never will.
I would certainly join a campaign to name, shame and force such men into paying.
Remember when Cameron said this 3 years ago: It’s high time runaway dads were stigmatised, and the full force of shame was heaped upon them,’ he added. ‘They should be looked at like drink-drivers. They need the message rammed home to them, from every part of our culture, that what they’re doing is wrong – that leaving single mothers, who do a heroic job against all odds, to fend for themselves simply isn’t acceptable.
...well he did feck all. A bit like the runaway dead-beat dads he talked of.