BLAIR'S BRITAIN COMES BOTTOM OF CLASS FOR CHILD WELL-BEING
A recent Unicef report puts the UK at the bottom of the league table for child well-being, out of 21 industrialised nations.
Though it may surprise even the most hardened cynic that the UK is in last place (below Poland, for example), it is hardly surprising that children are not happy when Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy and the highest proportion of lone parent families in Europe.
Of course, we are not suggesting Britain's performance is simply the fault of our barely functional family law system, or that government policies which encourage lone parenthood and the elimination of fathers from children's lives are entirely to blame.
But years of policies encouraging destruction of the family unit are finally coming home to roost - leaving us with the most unhappy children in Europe.
The government will no doubt say they need to spend more money to eradicate child poverty - but the Unicef report clearly shows that middle-class and well-off children are just as unhappy. It is not just a child poverty issue.
Children need two parents and secure family relationships to be happy.
What they don't need is a government which attacks and dismantles these at every opportunity.
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NOTE TO EDITORS
1. The Equal Parenting Alliance is a new UK political party, formed in February 2006. We aim to promote a system of family justice in the UK that puts the needs and interests of children first.
2. We will be fighting at least two seats in the upcoming Scottish parliamentary elections in May this year, and then several seats in the general election in England & Wales.
3. We think the family justice system should respect the right of children to normal parenting by their two parents above the rights or wishes of either of their parents alone. The current system does not do this. To give the most obvious illustration of this; it allows one parent to easily eliminate the other parent from a child's life, if they wish. We believe this is fundamentally wrong and bad for children.
FOR MORE INFORMATION See our website: www.equalparentingalliance.com Media Contact : Ray Barry, 0790 550 2856
