It’s an international issue and Governments simply don’t enforce the rights Mothers and children have for adequate support in law. Nor are child care or support services or in home respite for caring available. This seems obviously to keep women available and cheaply to work unpaid for men (the male class). It’s a huge imbalance which kills plenty of women as well. Enslaving and entrapping both Mothers and children. I don’t think it’s a race issue it’s an institutionalised misogyny. So that’s where resources should go. Of course new partners don’t want men to support their ex or children either despite law here (in NZ at least their are laws from the 1970s which are simply ignored like the Property Relationship Act 1976 and others). Sadly the establishment have purposely reduced access to Justice and prohibitive costs means women often don’t have funds to enforce their rights and agencies empowered to simply won’t. The only rational reason for this I can think of or see is to oppress women keep both women and children enslaved for men to abuse and to keep labour free or cheap. So it’s a symptom of slavery and wage theft,human rights abuse across the world. The problem with enforcing some laws and not others is a problem when it’s consistently not enforced for Mothers and children except punitively. They need to do both well surely? Currently the Government is doing neither. So it’s a question of law for some and not others and constantly prejudiced against the rights of the most vulnerable or at risk of exploitation. So that has to change and THEN the law can act on more than just the basics they’re not doing now. The children deserved to have healthy happy and supported 24/7 care which is what it takes.