Marriage IS KEY to the safety of our society - what is the media playing at?

The last couple of days' headlines are typical liberal media prejudice from journalists who can't bear the 'awful truth' that marriage between two adults is the best way to raise children and defend our society.  Even the Telegraph headline yesterday was 'Tories will make divorce harder'......

When will the media stop belittling those who are trying to save the desperate lives of some of our most vulnerable children?  And in doing so, defending the safety of our society from children who grow up so dehumanised by their experiences that they in turn destroy everything around them.

Jill Kirby's excellent recent article on 'looked after' children, talks about how adoption into a loving family is so much better a solution than the care system for those children where staying with their natural family is impossible. 

She writes "A generation is paying the price for the authorities' tolerance of drugs and alcohol on our streets and our culture of acceptance of casual relationships. Rectifying this should be a priority for any Government serious about improving the lives of our most vulnerable children".

It's only when the media get behind the importance of solid, enduring adult relationships supported by the law that we can begin to rectify the damage being done to thousands of childrens' lives in this country.  Why else did UNICEF find that British children are the least happy of all children in the 21 most developed nations?

The self indulgence and carelessness of non-committal adult relationships is, as we've just seen in the extreme case of Baby P, proving fatal to the next generation. 

Comments

[Womble On Tour]

The problem for me is that the government tries to do too much. By the prolific (and in many cases perverse) handout of state benefits it encourages single parenthood, erodes personal responsibility and discourages strong family units. It's no co-incidence that as the State has become more and more involved in the everyday lives of parents, and as the benefits culture has been allowed to take hold, so the classic model of two parents, married to one another, has declined. It's going to go on until the Welfare State is radically overhauled and cut right back so that only those in most need get help.
In my view the media is (literally) just a sideshow in this.