Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
MP calls for parents who do not pay child maintenance to face home curfew
dailyrecord.co.ukDivorced mums and dads who do not pay child maintenance should be punished with a “home curfew” preventing them from leaving their house, ministers have heard.
Conservative MP Dr Kieran Mullan said home detention for parents who do not pay support to their children would act as a “powerful reality check” for them.
The Crewe and Nantwich MP told the Commons: “When discussing this issue, we are talking about the most important building block in our society - the need for parents to take responsibility for their own children.
The overwhelming majority of parents do exactly that, whether together or separately they take care of their financial responsibilities."He added: “My parents are divorced and that had no bearing whatsoever on both of them continuing to look after myself and my siblings, but sadly not every parent does.”Dr Mullan claimed that the total amount owed in outstanding child maintenance payments at the end of September 2021 was £436 million, and could hit £1 billion by 2031.He also claimed that if it were paid, it could lift 60% of children not in receipt of payment out of poverty.Dr Mullan said: “This is a huge amount of money that is not being paid by non-residential parents, and we have a responsibility to hold to account and punish those individuals who behave in this deplorable manner.”The MP said he would welcome future consultation on introducing home curfew, telling the Commons: “Home curfew could remain in place for a designated period regardless of whether or not a parent started to pay, for example three months.“I imagine three months at home every night pondering their responsibilities would be a powerful reality check.
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