Does the child have a right to financial support?
The idea that the child has a right to financial support is not supported in law. The only right children have under our community law is the freedom from abuse and from neglect (neglect is a recent liberal addition). There never was any obligation, let alone formula of financial support to children or for any standard of living. The maternal welfare formulae are a fabrication of the Divorce. That person who is in care of a child in whatever capacity (teacher, baby-sitter, Scout leader, parent etc.) Must not abuse (or more recently neglect) the child. When the courts take a child from a parent and give the child to another person (in the absence of abuse or neglect) the fair and reasonable requirement on the court is to compensate the parent who loses the child. That’s the only right involved, and the only “fair and just and predictable” response to the flesh trade in our children that is going on day-in-day-out in our family courts.
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