A Million Children Growing Up Without Fathers
My Family, with Mary Therese's Godparents, Andy and Norah, on the occasion of her Baptism. I'm not sure why John is making the Vulcan 'live long & prosper' sign there, but anyway... The BBC here asserts that a new report on family breakdown says that a million UK children are growing up without a father in their lives. The Centre for Social Justice report says lone parent families are increasing by more than 20,000 a year and will top two million by the next general election. Some areas are virtual "men deserts" due to the high number of fatherless households, it adds. This is a shocking trend in our society which can only be furthered by a continued erosion of the building block of our society: marriage. As Sarah Teather recently pointed out , Once the concept of marriage has become established in social consciousness as an entirely private matter about love and commitment alone, without any link to family, I fear that it will accelerate ...