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anonimox · 05/12/2018 17:21

I am probably going to get a lot of backlash for what I am about to say but I am really struggling at being a single parent! All my kids are to the same father but when I was in labour YES you hear in labour and they were trying to stop it because it was too early he cheated & well now we're not together so I am a single parent to a 3 year old a 2 year old and a 5 month old my 5 month old needs ALOT of attention because he's always in and out of hospital poorly and my 3 year old is Beyond naughty he has a children's worker for his behaviour AND NO that's not social services or anything remotely like that. But I am struggling so bad I don't have family who understand how bad it is they just say I shouldn't have had all the kids so close together but how was I to know I would have become a single mother because for all I knew I was going to have support off their father but he only has the two eldest 2 nights a week he doesn't bother any other time or with the youngest and doesn't help financially in any sort of way

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whatsthepointthen · 05/12/2018 18:15

hi im in the same boat, although i have 4! 7,6,4 and 18 months, its tough and ex is fully absent, you are definitely not alone. can you claim child maintenance? he should be paying ,

anonimox · 05/12/2018 19:39

Yeah I can but with how much I have to pay out etc I literally don't have the time to spend the £20 on them to chase him etc I know that sounds so cheap on my half but that's the brutal truth of how hard it is for some people & he just gets to live how he likes no bills. I thing because he lives with his parents it's so frustrating

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