Part 1: When Paying Parents Are Pushed to Breaking Point There is a growing number of parents, many of them fathers, who are not refusing to support their children. They are drowning trying to. After separation, some have:- Given up the family home Agreed to significant financial settlements Handed over pensions, savings, stability And then they start again. From scratch. But when the Child Maintenance Service calculates payments, none of that is considered. No context. No h