Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
14th March 2012, 11:34
The government has promised to "champion" marriage and families in an effort to reduce social breakdown.
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said policy had "cloaked neglect of the family under the veil of neutrality".
He pledged investment to ensure troubled households get more support, rather than "shrugging our shoulders".
Mr Duncan Smith is urging businesses, councils and voluntary groups to help support families.
The government's Social Justice: Transforming Lives report promises to reverse the "couple penalty in the welfare system" and provide relationship support "acting early to keep families together".
'Champion'
It suggests that "children tend to enjoy better life outcomes when the same two parents are able to give them support and protection throughout".
The report says 28% of children in lone-parent families live in relative poverty, compared with 17% for those for "couple families".
It promises to "help people move to positions where they can replicate as closely as possible the security provided by a family unit, without being hampered by excessive prescription and bureaucracy".
The government says it wants to see "more stable families - an increase in the number of families staying together, and conversely a reduction in divorce and separation rates, especially where children are involved".
This will be seen as the clearest indication yet that the government will support traditional households in its policies.
I only post this in Discrimination because whenever I read or hear this kind of rhetoric from Conservatives, it often opesn to the door to putting down or marginalising the less 'traditional' families (gay parents, single parents etc).
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said policy had "cloaked neglect of the family under the veil of neutrality".
He pledged investment to ensure troubled households get more support, rather than "shrugging our shoulders".
Mr Duncan Smith is urging businesses, councils and voluntary groups to help support families.
The government's Social Justice: Transforming Lives report promises to reverse the "couple penalty in the welfare system" and provide relationship support "acting early to keep families together".
'Champion'
It suggests that "children tend to enjoy better life outcomes when the same two parents are able to give them support and protection throughout".
The report says 28% of children in lone-parent families live in relative poverty, compared with 17% for those for "couple families".
It promises to "help people move to positions where they can replicate as closely as possible the security provided by a family unit, without being hampered by excessive prescription and bureaucracy".
The government says it wants to see "more stable families - an increase in the number of families staying together, and conversely a reduction in divorce and separation rates, especially where children are involved".
This will be seen as the clearest indication yet that the government will support traditional households in its policies.
I only post this in Discrimination because whenever I read or hear this kind of rhetoric from Conservatives, it often opesn to the door to putting down or marginalising the less 'traditional' families (gay parents, single parents etc).