“Better to raise your child alone than to go through Guyana’s court system,” said a mother who has been attempting for months to hold the father of her son accountable by having him pay the court mandated sum for child maintenance.
I had detailed this woman’s experience earlier in the year. (It is reprinted below.) Since March, when she made an initial post on Facebook about her struggles, she has been fighting. It appears as if she is in a losing battle.
“March 19th I made this post (which she shared again) and it caught the attention of quite a number of people in authority,” she posted recently. “In July, the supervisor at the court filled out an application for me to attend court. I did, sometime in August.