Monday 4 January 2010

REBUILDING THE FAMILY

Building and rebuilding strong family units is key to our Conservative social policies. David Cameron's reiterated commitment to recognizing the family underlines just how impotant this is.
As Tim Montgomerie said on the Today Programme this morning, Britain is one of only THREE countries in the developed world, which does NOT recognize marriage through its tax system. Our travelling-companions in this case being Turkey and Mexico.

In 2007, there were 144,220 UK divorces according to the National Statistics office.

A new pre-marriage campaign group says:

“Fractured families are bad for British society yet EVERY year about 300,000 UK adults and countless children get caught up in the pain and devastation of divorce..."
http://www.journalism.co.uk/66/articles/537024.php

Tax Breaks for married couples would not reverse the divorce rate overnight; but would be an important step in the right direction.




1 comment:

  1. Take care on this one. Being Single (cohabiting with the same partner for 30 years)and childless I am not keen to pay for those who choose to marry and have kids. Make those, married or single who have children take responsibility for them. There are a lot of us out here who are fed up with being net contributors.
    Angela Gray

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