http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/15002/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/waiting-child-support/33276 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Enforcement program abandons single parent families, activist charges </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/single-mother-with-baby-008.jpg" alt="" title="The Nova Scotia Department of Justice is not doing enough to collect child support from deadbeat parents and ignores pleas from single parent families. Now there is a group that wants to change that." width="450" height="270" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>(KJIPUKTUK) HALIFAX - The provincial entity that is supposed to track the deadbeat parent and enforce payment isn&#39;t doing its job, says Gwen Williams, a single parent who was in the system for over 17 years.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/waiting-child-support/33276" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/waiting-child-support/33276#comments Robert Devet Gender Poverty child support justice Maintenance Enforcement Program Nova Scotia Nova Scotia MEP Reform single parents Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:51:09 +0000 Robert DeVet 33276 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca