Four Poor Sad Kiddies

This is taken from a report in the Daily Times of Pakistan, a report about family breakdown in the United Kingdom, a situation they no doubt find sad and barbaric, an affront to civilized values and the human rights of children.

'Four in ten children born in the year 2000 were not living with both parents by the age of eleven. And modern youngsters are four times as likely as those born in the 1960s to experience family collapse, the study reveals.
Researchers blamed the spread of family breakdown on the ease of divorce and the lack of shame felt by couples who separate.
They said youngsters whose mother and father had broken up were far more likely to have behaviour problems.
The state-funded Millennium Cohort Survey of more than thirteen thousand children born around the year 2000 found unmarried parents were responsible for most cases of family breakup.
At the age of eleven, around 92% of children born to married couples were living with both their mother and father. For those with cohabiting parents the proportion was only 55%.........Nearly four in every ten children lived through at least one change in their parents' relationship status in their first eleven years - up from one in ten in 1969.....The study said one in seven had been through more than one family breakup.
Dr. Roxanne Donnelly, the lead author of the report said, 'Some of these parents might have previously stayed together while living in misery, but many might have worked harder on their marriages, instead of giving up more easily, if there was more of a stigma.' The report compared the state of families today and in 1969, when a similar large-scale study was undertaken.
That was the year when major reforms ushered in the era of 'quickie' divorces. Since then, successive governments have removed tax incentives for couples to marry.'