HALF BRITAIN’S BABIES BORN OUTSIDE MARRIAGE
Posted by admin on March 28th, 2009It really is a trend that must be reversed. Almost half of all babies born in Britain are born out of wedlock according to official figures just released. If the number of conceptions are included then the figures for the number of pregnancies outside of marriage jumps to over fifty percent.
Not surprisingly the Government have come under heavy fire from family campaigners. Robert Whelan, of the Civitas think-tank which defends traditional family life, said: “These figures are an indictment of Ministers’ failure to support the two-parent married couples and the way in which the whole tax and benefit system has been skewed against them.
“The majority of social problems in areas like health, crime and education are linked to the collapse of the family and these figures are extremely worrying.”
With figures indicating that new immigrants into the country are having children within marriage that suggests that over half of the children born to British women are born outside of wedlock.
A recent academic study claimed that the Government’s benefits reforms have encouraged family breakdown because women who leave their husbands are often better off financially because they can claim higher welfare payments and better child care.
The number of people opting for a religious marriage ceremony has also suffered a sharp decline with just a little under 56,000 weddings conducted by the Church of England vicars.
From a personal point of view it seems to me that with the breakdown in family marriage comes a breakdown in society as the family must be the most important building block of any community and if it doesn’t exist then eventually that community will implode.
What are your views on this subject.
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