Justice Jesse Njagi has declared that “Parental responsibility is automatic and self-activating on parents upon the birth of a child and fathers cannot have discretion of either rejecting or accepting that responsibility." Neither will unemployment be accepted as a reason to abjudicate one’s responsibility.
Whereas I agree this change was way overdue, don’t you think ita create room where women or men wanapata watoto for ndio hiyo financial support i come through?
Watu hufikiria ati court judgements are set in stone ! There just mere orders that aren’t even worth the paper they are written on! Many people have trashed them including but not limited to matiang et all. They say you can bend the law just don’t break it and many people have circumvented this before. I have a friend whose crow decided to take him to the children’s court, his lawyer advised him to commit his payslip proper ! Nigga took a loan ya max two thirds of the gross ! Venye ilifika mahakamani jaji ambaye alikua mwanaume (your guess is as good as mine) probably akiangaishwa na crow mahali ruled the nigga to be submitting ksh 3000 pm and be keeping records! Another one from previous employment alikua analipa kortini ksh 500 that was in 05! Good luck with raising a kid with those sums. While I advocate for responsible parenting I don’t need a court to dictate what to do or not!
Hii ni mnyambo ya punda. Kama KRA na resources zake imeshindwa na wakenya, children department ndio itawezana na deadbeats? So if I am unemployed, what is the single mother going to do about it. Apewe makende akauze?
Hard prison labor like in the West. I can think of so many places where deadbeats can be put to good use, like digging ditches, collecting trash, farming…