“It is really heartbreaking. Sometimes you are feeling that you are the only one facing this and the court is being unfair and you are being treated terribly but there are so many other women who are going through the same thing. At first I thought I was the only one facing this because I don’t see anyone else complaining. But people are just frustrated with the system and sometimes just leave it and try to raise their children.”
These are the words of a mother who has been attempting for years to get the father of her eldest child to financially contribute to the welfare of their son. She thought she did the right thing by following the lawful procedure but this has proven to be futile as not only does the man not pay the money awarded by the court, there seems to be no penalty for this failure.