Independent Britain has to fix its broken family culture

Jun 24, 2016 by

by Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet:

[…] But behind the burning issues of the day is a long-term cultural trend which the country shares with most of Europe and the rest of the West: neglect of the family. This has been undermining Britain since before it joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Acceptance of divorce, abortion, pre-marital sex and the cohabitation and single motherhood that goes with it have left the social fabric weaker the pound at the end of trading today.

This is not just a list of puritanical do-nots; the family unit has a fundamental and irreplaceable role in bringing up citizens who can look after themselves and contribute to the common good. But the sexual revolution has fractured it in many ways.

In the same year that Britain entered the EEC, England and Wales introduced no-fault divorce. Around 40 percent of marriages now end in divorce, and rates are falling among younger couples mainly because so many are not marrying at all. Nearly half of British children are now born to unmarried couples – and that proportion would be higher if it were not counterbalanced by high rates of marital childbearing among immigrant families. Abortion, liberalised in England and Wales in 1967, has allowed the killing of more than eight million unborn children since then — 185,824 of them last year.

Several European countries are doing better in terms of family life, but no busybody in Brussels has been able to make the Brits better at marrying and giving their kids a stable home. “Broken Britain” is how a UK think tank summed up these trends a few years ago, and a broken society is a costly thing to run.

So if the new, independent Britain wants to show Europe how well it can go it alone, here is what it needs to do:

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