Legal Question in Family Law in Missouri

Legally my children's father has custody, I am to get them every other weekend, I pay child support, though I am behind, because I was homeless, I am currently paying regularly to catch up. But I'm still being held from having contact with my children simply because he (their father) says because he has custody he can legally do so, I text and call daily, when I contact him regarding visitation/over nights he just refuses to respond. The only time he responds is if I lose my patience and get rude, or if he is single. And when he does finally respond it's never him letting me speak to them, it is him telling me that I can text him whenever to set up a time to see them... but when I do he disregards it. And any other time he replies he basically tells me there's nothing I can do and that he isn't doing anything wrong. There has to be something I can do, when he got custody I agreed to let him because I was on extremely hard times and they were better off knowing how well he takes care of them. But when I got Everything together finally and am trying to regularly see my children, my 2 kids and myself have to suffer by his decision to deny me any contact what so ever. And hurts them even more by only doing it maybe once a month. I have a past and I wasn't going to be a selfish mother and "couch hip" with my 2 children because they didn't need to go through that along with their parents divorcing. I didn't fight him for custody. I agreed with him to have it and he agreed we'd work together after I got on my feet. That quickly changed once I got in a relationship. Me and the kids father ended up trying to work things out a year after court was finished. Upon that not working out he has been extremely spiteful and slanderous and is punishing our children because of his hatred or bitterness or even power trip that he has over me. I'm, in all honesty, desperate for legal help and guidance, my children adore me and their father. But are being kept from their mother out of spite and that isn't right. They not only deserve both parents but they need both a loving mother and loving father. Not just one. I want custody back of my children and to have him get them and see them whenever he feels. I've given him the benefit of the doubt on being a decent person after years of abuse and I as a mother don't feel safe not knowing how my kids are. What is he hiding that he refuses me any contact of any kind.

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