It's the culture of promiscuity, illegitimacy, teenage pregnancy, the breakdown of families and the acceptance of being a single mother as a lifestyle choice, in the UK. This leads to a lot of unmarried women and teenage girls having children without a care. They know that if they do, they can rely on the state to provide for them so they do not have to work or do anything to improve their situation; all paid for by taxpayers. There is actually an incentive to become an unmarried, single mother. Those women don't really care about their illegitimate children, they see them as cash cows because, the more they produce, the more state benefits they can receive, paid for by taxpayers. Another factor is that marriage and commitment are no longer valued by many British people. These are becoming less popular in society so, a lot of people treat relationships and sex, casually. Many people don't consider it important to have long-term relationships.

All of this is encouraged and reinforced by the clueless legal system which ensures that in practice, men have less rights to be part of their children's lives than women. A lot of men can't get access to their children after the relationship with the children's mother breaks down. Even when a court orders it, it is not enforced in many cases. Many unmarried mothers deliberately prevent access or play games to make it as difficult as possible, while the legal system enforces no kind of sanctions against them, for doing so.


All of these things happen while many single mothers don't even consider how the absence of their illegitimate children's fathers, affects the children. They don't care how it affects their children, all they care about is what they want; being a single mother as a lifestyle choice.

Socialism as practised by Gordon Brown fixing the family wages by supplements called family credits to set a minimum wage was an extraordinary mecha nism and now deemed unworkable. Peoples income varies month by month and who knows what goes under the table in cash. Billions have been wasted on this state controlled income policy. The American system is far more practical assessing the family income at the end of the year and taxing at a reasonable amount. Who needs the government topping up your family income. Gordon Brown was a control freak. And paying cash for having babies called child benefit at 100 pounds per month per sprocket. Fraud the only result as foreigners cashin and go home. Britain then opens the door for accountants fiddling all the taxes for the rich by avoiding stamp duty on home purchases. No wonder theres no money in the kitty. VAT 25%?

RIGBY=You come across as "upper class twit" and snob from the arrogant home counties. Who just wants "FUN"= debauchery like many in the 18th/19th Century who belonged to the "Hell-Fire" Club  On the other hand you could be here just to "wind up" anti-west posters.then you might be paid for posting. I thought people like you had "died out"But life's not so kind to the "underclass" as you like to call us.You are an anachronism in this 21 CENT. But maybe you are one of Camerons "rising stars" Whichever disguise you are under they are not appropriate to a web-site that mainly speaks for the PEOPLE/Socialism Maybe you should post on the House of Lords  web-site???