Real marriage and crime
from Coalition for Marriage:
Dr Mark Pickering, an experienced GP and CEO of the Christian Medical Fellowship, regularly visits prisons and secure mental health units. He has gained valuable insights into the predictive power of marriage and family in determining an individual’s interaction with the criminal justice system. To learn more, listen to our conversation here:
Our discussion focused on how family breakdown increases the likelihood of involvement in criminal activities, as highlighted in Theodore Dalrymple’s book ‘Life at the Bottom’.
According to Mark, the prison population comprises many “very sad people” who have “grown up with family breakdown” and a lack of stable role models. He says “family breakdown …and a lack of marriage … is there right at the root of it”. As a society, Mark argues, we must recognise the “importance of a good, stable family upbringing”, because it can help “mitigate so many of the challenges” of life and the problems that we see.
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