And the mother is required to get a job (or train for a job) and send the kids to daycare while she works to support them.
Woe that parents actually have to support and care for the children they beget. How mean of us.
You must live in a different country than I do. I live in the US. I've never heard of or read of any mother told to go to work by a family court judge. Not since 1978 anyway.