US mother used children in scam
A US woman has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after coaching her children to feign learning difficulties in order to obtain state benefits. The federal court heard that Rosie Costello, 46, of Vancouver, Washington state, collected more than $280,000 (£143,000) in benefits over 20 years. She began the coaching when her daughter was four and her son eight.
Her son has also pleaded guilty. Both will be sentenced in May. Prosecutors are still looking for her daughter.
Ms Costello faces up to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government and up to five years for social security fraud.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6401327.stm
Well, another fraudelent mother using her children for financial gain… this time against the US government. Not that shocked, though. But do you see the double standards here… the government doesn’t like to be decieved does it. But is knowingly lets thousands of woman go unpunished for defrauding duped dads with paternity fraud. I guess that’s okay.
Spendaholic Women with a mountain of debt
Latest figures claim that UK women have amassed an incredible £35 billion of debt. Most of which is unsecured loans and credit card. What are they spending this on you ask….. fancy clothes and personal care products!
Not suprised? Me neither…. no wonder they need some poor smuck (or 90s man) to come along on his white horse and take them away from all this… all this debt!
Double Barrel Names
I was speaking to a colleague today at lunch, and I enquired about his surname which is double barrelled. He explained to me that he was recently married and he and his wife has decided to join their two names to form this double barreled name?
I had to admit I was slightly amused, and said why break hundreds of years of tradition and loose your fathers name. He did seem quite offended and said it was only a name. I didn’t continue with the line of conversation but did think to myself…. “If it was only a name why would his wife insist on not loosing hers”.
Another colleague pointed out that if his children, if he had any, continued with this then we would end up with ridicously long surnames.
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me laugh but its quite worrying how some guys are so whipped by their woman. Girl Power hey?!? Pitiful fool!
Fathers ‘must fight gang culture’
Tory leader David Cameron has called for more powers to “compel” fathers to look after their children in an effort to tackle gang culture. He told the BBC he backed tax breaks to help families stay together and promoting a “culture of responsibility and respecting authority”.Mr Cameron’s comments follow the shootings of three London teenagers in less than a fortnight.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6367273.stm
Not sure how I feel about this new story.. on the one hand he’s blaming fathers for these feral kids running wild on our streets.
On the other hand, at least he realises that a father figure in a young boys live has a positive effect.
I think that there is a slow realisation that single mothers cannot raise young boys (or girls for that matter) to be responsible adults. The breakdown of traditional family values and no fault divorces is what is responsible for our unruly children.
What sickens me is that he did not place any critisim on single mothers. He dare not.. instead blame the fathers.
It’s the woman that found themselves pregnant with the local gold chain sporting drug-dealer who was always in prison. Remember it’s their body and their choice.
Maybe just maybe, he can involve fathers more…. why not have a bias for boys to reside with the father when dividing the ‘assets’ after a marriage breakdown. Yes, I said ‘assets’, since that is what woman use them as in the courts.
Our society is f**ked…. there’s nothing we can do about it. And we can expect it to get a lot worse in the coming years.
Dad wasn’t dad after all, but still owes child support
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – Sixteen months after his divorce, Richard Parker made a devastating discovery. A DNA test revealed that his 3-year-old son had been fathered by someone else.Mr. Parker immediately filed a lawsuit claiming fraud by his apparently unfaithful ex-wife. He took his case all the way to the Florida Supreme Court.
Last week, the Florida justices ruled 7-0 against him. They said that Parker must continue to pay $1,200 a month in child support because he had missed the one-year postdivorce deadline for filing his lawsuit. His court-ordered payments would total more than $200,000 over 15 years to support another man’s child.
Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0209/p01s01-usju.html
Now isn’t this just grand, and they call themselves justices, this is the exact reason why I created this blog to highlight the evergrowing injustice that is paternity fraud. Despite a DNA Test and suffering the heartache that the child you thought was yours is not. This poor guy has to payout for the next 15 years.
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