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December 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Steve Doughty
Last updated at 8:00 AM on 29th December 2011
A higher proportion of children are being brought up in one-parent families in Britain than in any other major European country.
One in five live with a single mother of father – a far higher ratio than in France, Germany or Scandinavian countries.
And while the number of married families in the UK is among the lowest in Europe, stable cohabiting relationships are also less common here than in other countries.
Single stress: Children who live with just one parent are more likely to do badly at school and suffer poor health, figures show
The figures, produced by the EU’s statistical arm, come at a time of increased efforts to downplay the importance of marriage by politicians and campaigners who oppose tax breaks for married couples.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has declared that ‘strong relationships between parents are important’ but the state should not use the tax system to favour a particular family set-up.
Happy families: The majority of the rest of Europe have more stable, cohabiting relationships than Britain
The figures from Luxembourg-based Eurostat suggest that strong relationships outside marriage are uncommon in Britain but that the decline of marriage has meant life with a single parent for millions of youngsters.
These children are more likely than others to suffer poor health, do badly a school, and go on to less successful adult lives.
According to the breakdown, 20.8 per cent of children in the UK were living in single parent families in 2008.
In just three countries were children more likely to live with one parent: Estonia and Latvia in Eastern Europe, and Ireland, where the number was 23.2 per cent. It is believed the surge in Ireland is a result of generous benefits to single parent families and high immigration.
The proportion of children in single-parent families in the UK is roughly 50 per cent higher than in France and 35 per cent higher than in Germany.
The breakdown also makes it possible to check the share of children of single-parent families against those who live with married or cohabiting parents.
Around two thirds in this country are living with married parents, the analysis shows.
Apart from the small Eastern states of Estonia and Latvia, only France and Sweden have a smaller percentage of children in married families. But in both, children are much more likely to have cohabiting parents in a stable relationship.
According to the analysis, just 12.8 per cent of children in Britain are with cohabiting parents, compared with 27.3 in Sweden and 21 per cent in France.
Critics of cohabitation maintain that most such relationships are short-lived and many end by leaving behind single-parent families.
Those who want the Government to support married couples said yesterday that the figures proved the impact of tax breaks and the benefit system.
Researcher and author Patricia Morgan said: ‘You can look at these figures and see immediately which countries help couples through tax and benefits.
‘In France, people get help if they draw up legal family contracts. In Germany, Holland and Italy, married people get tax relief and tax relief for children. Even in Sweden, where they do nothing for married couples, they do not help single parents, and they expect them to work.
‘By contrast, our system encourages transient shack-ups. Even cohabiting couples get no help at all.’
Jill Kirby, an author on family development, warned: ‘Unless our Government acts to implement pro-marriage policies, the gap with the rest of Europe will continue to widen.’
Despite David Cameron’s pledge to introduce tax breaks for married couples, several Whitehall organisations are supporting cohabitation.
The Office for National Statistics is downgrading its publication of figures on marriage to give equal prominence to cohabiting families. And the Law Commission, the Government’s law reform adviser, is calling for legislation to help cohabitees settle inheritances and take out insurance policies.
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Interesting article, but a few facts missing.
The average age of a British lone parent is 37.
57% of British lone parents are in work, this rises to 71% when their child starts secondary school.
Only 2% of British lone parents are teenagers.
55% of British lone parents had their children in marriage.
Notice that Sweden is fourth on the list with 17%.
However, 87% of their lone parents are in work. Might have something to do with the fact that their childcare is capped at affordable levels and cannot cost more than 0.25% of the family income.
Whereas, Britain has the most expensive childcare relative to income in the world!
It would be helpful to both lone and two parent families, if a campaign was started for affordable childcare in this country.
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Feminism has made it the transition from boy to manhood a guilt-ridden and difficult process.
The result is two generations of men less certain of themselves and less able to be what women always have and always will want : a man … still more so for those who grow up without a paternal role model.
It underpins the differential decline in boys’ educational performance in the emasculated state-school system, where competition has been eliminated in a system brainwashed by feminism.
All evidence shows that boys require competition to thrive and mature as men.
Feminism is the enemy of men and women alike, in turning out ‘men’ less able to fulfill the male role for which evolution has equipped them over millenia – both as partners and parents.
After throwing out the baby with the patriarchal bathwater in the experimental Sixties, isn’t it about time the baby was recovered and the educational system restored to something recognisably useful ?
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The bringing of babies into the world should be the result of a lovable, stable relationship, as those over the age of fifty were taught to believe. Nowdays, it`s not only financially lucrative to have children outside of wedlock, it is positively encouraged by this and past governing parties. Until this situation is either curtailed, or the restricting of family numbers is confined to two children only; then the present – free for all – distribution of child allowances can only carry on being abused.
Tom. – old fashioned values and proud of them.-
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As a lawyer working in family law I can assure you that we have a national crisis regarding single motherhood. My day is spent in the family courts dealing with the problems that the single parent on benefits situation causes. And it’s costing the taxpayer far more than the welfare budget suggests. A very high percentage of the male children go onto be a problem for our criminal justice system costing the taxpayer vast sums of money on Courts, prisons, probation service etc
Government policy has encouraged millions of young women to have children so as to earn themselves a very decent living off the taxpayer. They see it as a better option than some dull job working in retail. But ultimately this policy is bad for the children that they bear and for them too. And certainly for our country. We have to do something to stop this cycle of madness!
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Try being a single parent in the 1950’s like my mother was! Found out she was expecting me then a double whammy finding out my “father” was already married with 2 boys!! No child benefit in those days, no tax credits or help with rent, rates etc. Worked all the hours God gave her. Only had 3 jobs in her whole life, never claimed for a thing because it wasn’t there to be claimed. Survived on £46 a week and that paid for EVERYTHING !! Took my father to Court and was awarded the princely sum of £1 a month towards my upbringing. THAT WAS HARDSHIP! My father never wanted to know me and to be honest I was better off without him. Of course she could have had me aborted or adopted but she didn’t. I miss her everyday for the sacrifices she made for me.
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My mum and dad are split up but my mum is now classed as a single parent even though I spend half my week and my dads and half at my mums it’s not right that she has that label when she isn’t a single parent my dad is there for me all the time unlike other children
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So is this article about the quantity of parents, or the quality of parenting?
Fred and Rose West were a two-parent family, and what good was that to their kids?
Better one good parent than two lousy ones!
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– Jessica, The beautiful south, 29/12/2011 10:50
And how do you know that the people critical of single parenthood meet the stereotype of married couple. Why be derogatory about a DM reader which you must also be. It’s a cheap easy argument attempting to shut down debate. Aren’t you also stereotyping? I do not meet the stereotype either but you cannot argue with the facts. I would criticise the culture of girl gets pregnant, gets house, gets benefits and so on and so forth but recognise this does not apply across the board. However, it is a problem we cannot ignore because it does not suit us.
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Government has become a unit for redistributing mostly male taxes to females. All government departments except jail service spend more on females.
Feminism can only only exist due to Big government mostly paid with male taxes of course. Doing their fair share of Working in dirty, difficult dangerous jobs is not part of sexual equality for feminists, of course.
In the future the state WILL be curtailed, and this underclass hell for our kids will stop these feminist driven MADNESS
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I think that both parents should be responsible for the upbringing of the children whether theyre together or not. If Family Courts started to implement the rights of the children allowing them to have equal contact with both parents, if practical / possible ie the default is 50/50 you will see the animosity over money / CSA eliminated and the focus would be on what is good for the children. My wife left me and used the children for financial gain and emotional punishment as she like me’s lost everything. i took her to court and got a contact order, which is worth nothing as the law allows her to refuse the childrens contact with me. She’s to ‘blame’ for the marraige breakdown, but thats not important to me or the courts. Whats important is welfare of the children and more … alot more … should be done to balance the rights of parents for the benifit of the children. Just because parents divorce it does not mean theyre bad parents. Equal rights = equal responsibility/contact.
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