Heffer: Underclass of single parents lead to criminality
Simon Heffer in today’s Telegraph (“The underserving poor will be Cameron’s biggest headache”) repeats the myth of: “an underclass of single […]
Simon Heffer in today’s Telegraph (“The underserving poor will be Cameron’s biggest headache”) repeats the myth of:
“an underclass of single parents that sociological surveys since Charles Murray have shown lead to poverty, criminality and underachievement by their children.”
In fact, research published last week by the OECD found that there was little or no evidence to link social problems with single parenthood, and that children in single parent families are thriving, concluding that:
“If there is a causal effect on child well-being of being brought up in a singleparent family, it is likely to be small.”
Our guest writer is Kate Bell, Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at Gingerbread
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