TALLINN — Estonia’s Ministry of Justice launched this week a web page with the list of  those parents who refuse to pay alimony hoping to force them to take responsibility.

The page is located on the justice ministry’s website and includes with the parents’ names and personal identification code. Fifteen names, all men, have been posted so far for the general public to see.

Debts from 32,000 to 188,000 krooni (€2,000 to €12,000) which is a bad deed to their children, but there are nearly 5,000 parents who do not want to support their children, and the number owed by parents is around 43 million krooni (€2.7 million).

The website marks a reverse direction from a trend toward less information about criminal behavior being released to the public. Earlier this month police decided to stop emailing journalists police reports on most crimes, instead releasing them on a case-by-case basis.