Coastal dads top nation’s child-pay shame
Posted by JohnF | Posted in Child Support, News | Posted on 05-05-2008
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FATHERS in coastal regions are the nation’s worst offenders when it comes to shirking child-support payments.
New data shows many parents, most of them fathers living in Queensland’s resort towns have turned their backs on their children.
Child Support Agency statistics show parents in leading tourist destinations including Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach and Palm Beach, on the Gold Coast, and Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, are the least likely to meet their child-support payments.
CSA has ranked the 10 postcodes with the worst payment rates, seven of which are in Queensland.
About 5 per cent of parents across the nation failed to pay any maintenance in the past financial year, even if they only had to cough up $10 a week.
Commentators said unemployment and the high number of single parents in the region could be the cause.