Lone parents cause child poverty
by Kathy Gyngell, TCW:
Sir Paul Coleridge’s devastating account of the decline of marriage and the inexorable rise of lone parenthood and cohabitation should give Mrs May’s ‘social reform’ team at Number Ten pause for thought.
What’s crystal clear is that Britain’s rising level of illegitimacy – a word made taboo by the Left – is socially catastrophic. On the scale it is today, it drives ever more children ‘into poverty’. It is the cause of this modern evil – the so-called ‘child poverty’ that the Left have artfully characterised as the sin of income inequality.
The truth is that the sin is that of the parents – of disastrous lifestyle choices that decades of welfarism and a ‘thou shalt not stigmatise’ threat has encouraged. What more cunning claim could the Left have made to the moral high ground?
Resistance to such analysis is huge. Political correctness took us into a post-truth world years ago, when the Left first took the Right hostage on the traditional family.
I knew that when I was invited onto The Big Questions last week to counter received poverty wisdom.
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