National Post – Nov. 16, 2010
Debtor’s prison for dads
By Barbara Kay
Last week Ontario announced it will begin impounding cars of fathers who fall behind in their child support payments. What, are mere licence suspensions not driving enough men to despair?
Received via email (Something to think about in terms of the reforms necessary to law and public policy to end all incentives to marriage break-up and unmarried parenthood)…
Ontario’s Family Responsibility Office (FRO) is a star-chamber government agency, enforcing ever more draconian laws – taking debtors prisons right out of Dickens’ time. It is an abomination, and every province has its equivalent. The most sickening fact is that these laws are enforced disproportionately harshly against the unemployed and the uneducated – precisely those who cannot speak for themselves.