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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/child-maintenance-system-overhaul.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Government is to propose the biggest overhaul of child maintenance for a decade" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-child-maintenance-system-overhaul.jpg" alt="The Government is to propose the biggest overhaul of child maintenance for a decade"/></a></p>
<p>Urgent reforms in the child support system are needed to halt the &#8220;tragic&#8221; scale of family breakdown, Families Minister Maria Miller has said.</p>
<p>Statistics show that one in five children from a broken home loses touch with a parent within three years and never sees them again, while many more lose contact as they grow older.</p>
<p>The Government is to propose the biggest overhaul of child maintenance for a decade, arguing that the current system encourages conflict between parents.</p>
<p>Speaking in the Daily Mail, Mrs Miller said: &#8220;We know that if effective financial arrangements are in place, those parents are much more likely to stay in contact and much more likely to have a strong relationship with their children. Staying in contact with both parents is absolutely critical to give a child the best start in life.&#8221;</p>
<p>The minister said the latest figures showed there were 3.5 million children from broken homes, with almost half having no effective maintenance arrangements.</p>
<p>&#8220;Twenty per cent of children from separated families lose contact with the non-resident parent within just three years,&#8221; she added. &#8220;That is a tragedy. But the current system entrenches conflict when families separate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under the proposals, separating parents will be encouraged to find a settlement on their own and those who insist on state intervention will now have to pay a fee. Payments will be overseen by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, which is taking over the work of the Child Support Agency.</p>
<p>Ministers claim there is currently a £4bn arrears in maintenance payments from non-resident parents. Mrs Miller said the child maintenance system costs £460 million a year.</p>
<p>She also pointed to research that suggested children who are not brought up in a two-parent family are 75% more likely to fail at school, 70% more likely to become a drug addict, 40% more likely to have serious debt problems and 35% more likely to become unemployed or welfare dependent.</p>
<p>Ms Miller added: &#8220;We know that the most effective and enduring arrangements are ones that parents come to themselves.&#8221;</p>
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