The Child Support Agency was always a misnomer because it was never really about child support. It was rolled out like a sullen B52 bomber to hit on delinquent dads and slags scrounging off the state.
The Tory moralism that animated the CSA was concerned with money for the state, not money for children - recouping for the state what it lost in benefits paid out to dependent women and children.
That's why the CSA was never resourced or respected enough to intervene effectively in the fearful complications of alienated fathers' and mothers'
financial problems. And that is why the Government's strange decision to review a body it has already deemed beyond redemption is a little worrying.
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