How is it that in this day in age we have a system that is so backwards that nobody understands it.

A mother withholds care of her child from their father, yet the father is expected to pay full child support regardless. A mother has the final say in when and if a father gets to see his children even after going through the court system. A father takes his life because he is denied access to see his kids yet society and the government does nothing. A father takes a custody matter to court to have it dealt with by the system, yet when the mother breaks the court order there are no repercussions, yet if a father breaks a DVO/AVO that has been obtained through lies and deceit he is thrown in jail. 

As far as I am concerned, withholding your children from their biological mother/father is a form of domestic violence yet when it is taken to the police or brought up in the courts it is simply dismissed. We have had many publicised Domestic Violence cases of late that have forced the government to make a change yet many fathers commit suicide over child support and children being withheld from them, but it doesn't get noticed by the media and goes away unseen.

The Child Support system is broken and beyond repair and needs a major overhaul. How is it that a father has a 50% shared care of a child yet is still expected to pay child support. Child support should be for the care of the children, not the support of the ex partner, they should be out working to support themselves. Why would a father spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on obtaining a court order onto to have it broken by mother and Child Support reward the mother for breaking the law by having the father chased for child support payments. A father who has his kids for 54 nights a year pays the same amount of child support as a father who has his kids for 125 nights a year. Child support try and predict the future a year at a time yet when this is questioned it is dismissed as the formula that is has to be followed.

We need a fair care payment system for the payer of child support that isn't going to send families into financial hardship. Child support needs to be on a case by case basis not decided on mathematically equations based on someones gross wage. The government is effectively doubling dipping from the payers of child support. I thought the government was against "double dipping". This system as it stands it hurting families, fathers, mothers but most importantly its hurting the children.