Four single mothers take legal action against government over unpaid child maintenance
One mother, who lives near Selby in North Yorkshire, said:"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up.
"I go without so my children don't. I never go out, I never spend money on myself - I'd rather use the little we have so they can go on things like school trips. I don't want my boys to be stigmatised."Gingerbread, a charity which works with single parent families, said it was supporting the women in their legal action.
Charity chief executive Victoria Benson said:"It is a child's legal right to be supported by both parents, and yet the service designed to protect this right is failing them.
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