Government is finally giving attention to the economic ramifications of family breakdown.
According to an article reported in The Daily Telegraph, the Government plans to have midwives, GPs, and registrars talk to couples about their relationships in an effort to minimize family breakdown.
After talking with couples, these Government workers will encourage couples to seek additional support services. The Government might also suggest that employers make these support services more accessible to employees.
Government plans build on a report launched last year, titled the Family Stability Review. This report gathers information about the change in families and the areas in which they are most at risk. Two of the proposed sessions would be aimed at parents with small children and at “silver-splitters,” older couples who separate before they reach retirement age.
In an article to the Telegraph earlier this year, Lord Freud, the welfare minister, asserted that families needed to be stabilized after finding out that the number of unmarried parents raising children has increased dramatically.
The Government does not seem to be concerned that family breakdown is a problem in itself, but that family breakdown costs taxpayers millions of pounds every year. The Relationships Foundation Study estimated that UK taxpayers pay approximately £46 billion a year or £1,541 for every individual, from issues stemming from broken families. These are costs that include education, criminal justice, and healthcare.
Christian Voice has been warning about this very problem for years. In 2012 we reported that family breakdown costs British taxpayers money in some of the following ways:
- Promiscuity often leads to STI’s, which cost the British taxpayer more than £1 billion per year.
- Promiscuity often leads to HIV. The estimated 83,000 cases of HIV in the UK at the end of 2008 represent a total lifetime cost of £26 billion.
- Promiscuity leads to teenage pregnancy which cost the NHS £63 million per year, and a further £29 million for infertility and other complications arising from chlamydia alone.
- Promiscuity often leads to abortions, and 96% of abortions are carried out on the NHS at a cost of £650 each, or £118 million.
- Promiscuity often contributes to separation from marriage and cohabiting relationships (including promiscuity prior to entering such relationships), which entails huge increases in tax credit payments, lone parent benefits, housing benefits, in addition to the health, crime and educational impact of relationship breakdown. Altogether this totals about £42 billion a year.
- In contributing to relationship breakdown, promiscuity leads to Absenteeism. The loss of working hours following relationship breakdown costs the economy at least £20 billion a year.
- In contributing to relationship breakdown, promiscuity can lead to domestic violence which costs the British taxpayer around £3.4 billion a year, and around £21 billion today in ‘human and emotional costs.’
- The effect of relationship breakdown on children leads to educational underachievement which results in an estimated £40,000 for each child, reducing GDP by £6 billion. Much of this cost can be directly attributable to the promiscuous activity which contributed to the relationship breakdown.
Additionally, studies have shown that family breakdown negatively affects children. The effects of a broken home can cause children to perform poorly in school, commit crimes, and suffer mental health problems. However, children from stable families tend to avoid these negative effects and have a better chance of a successful life.
Government says it will act to give children the “best start in life.” The Marriage Foundation has asked state spending to concentrate on families with young children, because that is the time when most relationships are vulnerable for a break-up.
This is what happens when the family, the backbone of any healthy society, gets politically corrected out of existence. Society has become like a rubber chicken. No sense of direction due to broken moral compass. Good for nothing except rubbery tribal groupthink.
love your turn of phrase and totally agree with you!
Secularism the result of the nation, leaders and intelligentsia dumping our Christian heritage does not change truth or reality. The brave new world of feminists, evolutionists, humanists etc has not delivered utopia but dystopia and the financial costs, spiritual and mental health costs are huge. A nation in sin which has largely forsaken God is now eating the bitter fruits of what has been sown. Alas they will carry on despite the blindingly obvious. Fools who thought they were wise. And an apostate church has lost their love for Jesus, and despair at souls hurtling on the bullet train to hell.
In the midst of all this the Government in their wisdom disembowel marriage! They are thinking of marriage lite – civil partnership for heterosexuals. No more vows to love and cherish till death do us part. They are allowing gay couples to procreate although statistics show that these relationships are less stable. The worst of all is making it legal for 2 men to create a child artificially who is motherless. God help us all.
None of the above takes into consideration the fact that the number of previous sexual partners a woman has had in correlated with the probability of a subsequent marriage breaking down, until the number reaches 20 when any increase seems to have little if any effect.
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When family breaks down, boys learn how they could use women, since many of the men their mothers are around are users. They never know what its like to be a responsible man, and how to take care of a family. If a woman takes care of herself and her kids, the man will learn how to use her, and talk like SEE, YOU COULD DO IT, SUPERWOMAN.. while he wastes time on video games.
Boys today, who are with fathers, learn to become responsible, providing the father is training and not just yelling at him.