{"id":7368,"date":"2014-04-09T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2014-04-12T01:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T00:18:15","slug":"government-concerned-cost-family-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/government-concerned-cost-family-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Concerned About Cost of Family Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/government-concerned-cost-family-breakdown\/\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7380\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Family-Breakdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7380 \" alt=\"Shattered glass on family portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Family-Breakdown.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Family-Breakdown.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Family-Breakdown-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family breakdown continues to rise in Britain, costing taxpayers billions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Government is finally giving attention to the economic ramifications of family breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10717777\/Midwives-GPs-and-registrars-to-help-tackle-family-breakdown.html\"><strong>article<\/strong> <\/a>reported in <em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, the Government plans to have midwives, GPs, and registrars talk to couples about their relationships in an effort to minimize family breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Government plans build on a report launched last year, titled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/family-stability-review-invitation-to-contribute-to-the-review-of-evidence\"><strong>Family Stability Review.<\/strong><\/a> 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 \u201csilver-splitters,\u201d older couples who separate before they reach retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>In an article to the Telegraph earlier this year, Lord Freud, the welfare minister, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/sex\/divorce\/10676683\/Cost-of-broken-families-goes-far-beyond-the-benefits-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>asserted<\/strong><\/a> that families needed to be stabilized after finding out that the number of unmarried parents raising children has increased dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relationshipsfoundation.org\/web\/OnlineStore\/Product.aspx?ID=156\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Relationships Foundation Study<\/strong><\/a> estimated that UK taxpayers pay approximately \u00a346 billion a year or \u00a31,541 for every individual, from issues stemming from broken families. These are costs that include education, criminal justice, and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Voice has been warning about this very problem for years. In 2012 we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/the-cost-of-a-permissive-society\/\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a> that family breakdown costs British taxpayers money in some of the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promiscuity often leads to STI\u2019s, which cost the British taxpayer more than \u00a31 billion per year.<\/li>\n<li>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 \u00a326 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Promiscuity leads to teenage pregnancy which cost the NHS \u00a363 million per year, and a further \u00a329 million for infertility and other complications arising from chlamydia alone.<\/li>\n<li>Promiscuity often leads to abortions, and 96% of abortions are carried out on the NHS at a cost of \u00a3650 each, or \u00a3118 million.<\/li>\n<li>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 \u00a342 billion a year.<\/li>\n<li>In contributing to relationship breakdown, promiscuity leads to Absenteeism. The loss of working hours following relationship breakdown costs the economy at least \u00a320 billion a year.<\/li>\n<li>In contributing to relationship breakdown, promiscuity can lead to domestic violence which costs the British taxpayer around \u00a33.4 billion a year, and around \u00a321 billion today in \u2018human and emotional costs.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>The effect of relationship breakdown on children leads to educational underachievement which results in an estimated \u00a340,000 for each child, reducing GDP by \u00a36 billion. Much of this cost can be directly attributable to the promiscuous activity which contributed to the relationship breakdown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/sex\/divorce\/10674267\/Family-breakdown-could-cost-taxpayers-46bn.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>says<\/strong> <\/a>it will act to give children the \u201cbest start in life.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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