Rise in lone parents: does it matter?

[MrVersatile48]

Rise in lone parents: does it matter?

Children in Britain are increasingly likely to live in single-parent families, up three times the level of one-parent households in 1972.

The annual Social Trends report from the Office for National Statistics shows that since 1971, the proportion of all people living in "traditional" family households of married couples with dependent children has fallen from 52% to 37%.

It also says that Britons are more likely stay at home for longer, marry later and struggle to afford a house.

Does it matter if the traditional, nuclear family is becoming less common?

Do you think that children still need two parents to have a proper upbringing?

Send us your thoughts and experiences.


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Ian

 

[Rick W]

We reap what we sow and we planted plenty in the late 60's and early 70's for the sexual revolution.
So the fruit is coming forth. 40% of the babies born are born out of wedlock.
Do we learn from this? No.
We say the kids can deal with it if educated properly to the new and improved ways of thinking about the family unit. The sexual revolution, or more accurately "separation of sex and marriage", has succeeded to attack marriage and wrest sex fron the wedding bed. The attacks resulted in much less focus on the importantance of the institution and more on what people wanted in the first place, sex. And sex is more alluring than the fundementals of marriage since people don't want restictions on sex anyway.
We can't blame divorce on marriage but on the attacks made against it's foundations.
So the sexual revolution continues but under other names such as tolerance, equal rights and freedom to choose. Regardless of what it's called it's still the same animal. Separation of sex from marriage. And again, we'll continue to reap what we sow.

 

[tim-from-pa]

I see a lot of what is going on today regarding families as the left-overs from the hippie generation. Being the "Hippy's kid brother" as I call myself, I have mixed feelings about the generation. They sought love, peace and togetherness and wanted to buck authority. I could see where they were coming from. But there was one problem---- they defined truth in their terms which was really no better off. Having no moral absolutes, the generation after them (generation x) seemed to be a lost, wandering generation living out in space somewhere. They, and more likely their kids (generation Y) started having a lot of discipline problems--- look at the news today. High divorce rate, school shootings, rampant deviant behavior of sorts, etc.

Thus, the Hippy generation "had to get tough" and turn almost opposite to a pseudo-puritanical rule where we hear things like "politically correct", "zero tolerance" and other catch phrases that show no tolerance and a regime a hundredfold less tolerant than the parents and generation they rebelled against. A sure example of the pot calling the kettle black. Bottom line.... they now "know that something is terribly wrong" but lacking the (biblical) morality they lay down their own and new intolerant laws to counteract the grand mess that became of all this.

This intolerance will be an open and easy opportunity for one-world government and other Antichrist systems IMO.