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  • paddedjohn
    paddedjohn Posts: 7,512 Forumite
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    Unless she is a 3 by 3 or a 4 by 4 mum!

    In wich case each father has to contribute 15% for each child, totalling (60%) instead of the 25%!!

    One of my daughter's friend has 3 by 3. Each father nets about £2500 a month and in total she receives £1125 a month.

    From what I am told she is on a site called 'Sugar Daddy' I think it is called - looking for father number 4 as the youngest is 3. Looking for the 'biggy' as she puts it as after number 4 she has had it.

    Not bad when you factor in the Income Support, Disability Benefits, CTB & HB she gets on top! Lives in a lovely £350,000 4 bed detached property that even I couldn't afford and runs around in a new Honda 4x4 courtesy of Motability!

    Even if its 4x4 the contribution still stays at 15%, not 60%
    Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.
  • fogartyblue.
    fogartyblue. Posts: 482 Forumite
    edited 25 March 2012 at 7:49PM
    paddedjohn wrote: »
    Even if its 4x4 the contribution still stays at 15%, not 60%

    No it doesn't.
    With four different fathers each father would be liable to support their own child at the rate of 15% of their net weekly wage/monthly salary.

    With my daughters friend she has 3 children by 3 different fathers. All three fathers earn net approx £2500 a month.

    Each father pays her 15% of £2500 = £1125 a month in total.

    If it was one father with three children the max would have been 25% 0f £2500 = £625 a month

    So by having different fathers she is able to collect an extra £500 a month in child maintenance.

    If she had 4 children by 4 different fathers and they all earned net about £2500 a month she would get another 15% of £2500 = £375 a month.

    This would take her income up to £1500 (60% x £2500) instead of £625 a month if the same father had 4 children!

    It does not pay financially to have just one guy father all of her children.
    Hence why it is more prevalent today for a mum to have no child that is a true blood sister or brother - they are all half brothers and sisters.
  • gingergee
    gingergee Posts: 918 Forumite
    Its 21st century!! Things have moved on, blended families etc!!! Do all these dads work at same place or somat? I thought unemployment was up at the mo?????
    The feeling i got when i confirmed my place studying criminology at Exeter Uni was brilliant!!!!!

    The pride my children told me they had in me was even better!!!!! # setting positive example to children is OUTSTANDING!!!! !:grouphug::grouphug::smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea
  • paddedjohn
    paddedjohn Posts: 7,512 Forumite
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    No it doesn't.
    With four different fathers each father would be liable to support their own child at the rate of 15% of their net weekly wage/monthly salary.

    With my daughters friend she has 3 children by 3 different fathers. All three fathers earn net approx £2500 a month.

    Each father pays her 15% of £2500 = £1125 a month in total.

    If it was one father with three children the max would have been 25% 0f £2500 = £625 a month

    So by having different fathers she is able to collect an extra £500 a month in child maintenance.

    If she had 4 children by 4 different fathers and they all earned net about £2500 a month she would get another 15% of £2500 = £375 a month.

    This would take her income up to £1500 (60% x £2500) instead of £625 a month if the same father had 4 children!

    It does not pay financially to have just one guy father all of her children.
    Hence why it is more prevalent today for a mum to have no child that is a true blood sister or brother - they are all half brothers and sisters.

    Not very good at Maths are you, it's still only 15% even with 50 dads and 50 kids
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  • paddedjohn wrote: »
    Not very good at Maths are you, it's still only 15% even with 50 dads and 50 kids

    Yes it is but I was just trying to explain how much more 'profitable' it is to have 3/4 fathers each fathering 1 child than it is with 1 father fathering 3/4 children - that is why she does it!

    With 1 father and 4 children she would get a max of 25% of £2500 = £625 a month.

    With 4 fathers with 1 child each she would get 15% x £2500 x 4 = £1500 a month!!
    An increase of £875 a month!
  • Morlock
    Morlock Posts: 3,265 Forumite
    With 4 fathers with 1 child each she would get 15% x £2500 x 4 = £1500 a month!!

    She must be one of, oooh, one woman in the UK in that unique position. Good for her.
  • nannytone_2
    nannytone_2 Posts: 13,000 Forumite
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    i must admit that i have a friend that has 6 kids by 4 fathers, she gets 1500 a month before any IS and CTC
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,912 Forumite
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    Yes it is but I was just trying to explain how much more 'profitable' it is to have 3/4 fathers each fathering 1 child than it is with 1 father fathering 3/4 children - that is why she does it!

    With 1 father and 4 children she would get a max of 25% of £2500 = £625 a month.

    With 4 fathers with 1 child each she would get 15% x £2500 x 4 = £1500 a month!!
    An increase of £875 a month!

    Why are you trying to explain about single Mums with children by different partners when the OP has asked about his situation - one child - and has already got the answer to the question he asked?
  • clearingout
    clearingout Posts: 3,290 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    Why are you trying to explain about single Mums with children by different partners when the OP has asked about his situation - one child - and has already got the answer to the question he asked?

    because he's trying to make the point that single mothers are dreadful people who set out to trap innocent men into handing over at least 15% of their wages on multiple occasions. Apparently, it's profitable to bear children in this way.

    No empathy whatsoever for the fact that many people find themselves single parents through no fault of their own, that second or more marriages/serious relationships have an incredibly high failure rate (hence the increasingly likelihood of a woman having multiple children by mutliple fathers), or indeed, we live in 'modern times' whereby society has moved along to the extent that we believe it entirely acceptable to have multiple children by multiple fathers.

    Fogarty, seriously, you don't have a clue.
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,912 Forumite
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    Hijacking someone else's thread to use it as a soapbox is just plain rude.
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