Why won’t the government talk about marriage, asks Iain Duncan Smith

Oct 4, 2017 by

by Jack Doyle, Mailonline:

Britain is facing a broken families ‘crisis’ and ministers are afraid of talking about marriage, Iain Duncan Smith has said.

The former Work and Pensions Secretary said the Government should challenge the view – widely held by the middle classes – that marriage was a ‘lifestyle choice’.

He argued that the country needed a marriage ‘revolution’ and called for tax cuts for couples who tie the knot and an end to the ‘couple penalty’ for low-income families in the tax and benefit system.

Mr Duncan Smith, a long-standing campaigner against family breakdown, said boys were learning their approach to sex and relationships from internet pornography, which in turn is damaging the self-worth of girls.

‘People join golf clubs and they sign up to the most absurd things. They will sign contracts on housing and never question them. And on the most important relationship in our lives, which will damage or make us, the middle class sit there and tell us this is a lifestyle choice, we shouldn’t ever tell people that it really matters that you write it down on a piece of paper.

‘It commits you to what you are about to do for the rest of your life. Out there these boys particularly who never learn the concept of what this is about will find the alternative on the internet. The alternative is about abusive sex and low value for women. That’s why there is such a collapse of self-worth among young girls, because they see themselves as objects.’

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