David Willetts, the Shadow Cabinet member for family policy, has today launched the family section of the Conservative Party's Draft Manifesto.
He said "we can’t go on ignoring the importance of strong families". "They provide the stability, warmth and love we need to flourish as human beings, and the relationships they foster are the bedrock on which society is built."
Our outline plans to make Britain more family-friendly by:
• Reforming the tax and benefits system to help families
• Taking a new approach to early intervention
• Helping families to balance their lives
Willetts said that it outlined "a comprehensive approach to encourage stability and tackle social breakdown – a new system of flexible parental leave which lets parents share maternity leave, more health visitors to support new parents, and encouraging commitment by recognising marriage in the tax system".
He added that the Government’s recent green paper - its first on families since 1998 - "fails to confront the big issues" and "does not match the scale of change that is needed to support families and mend Britain’s broken society".
Giving children a better start in life is essential to avoid problems of social delinquency later.
The family (in whatever form) is the best environment for children to be nurtured and raised.
We do the children of this country a dis-service for life if we do not promote the family!
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I support the theory, but feel it is too rigid. From what I have see, it does not take account of long term stable common law relationships. Tax breaks for married couples only could also lead to abuse and peple marring and staying in the same for the wrong reasons. Potentially, this could be more damaging and have othe negative knock on effects.
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