Andrew Selous, Shadow Minister for Family Welfare and Child Support, looks at ways that the costs of social breakdown can be assuaged by pro-family policies.
In my local press I have written recently about the social breakdown that lead over the summer to the horrific murders of four year old Leticia Wright by her mother and her partner, 15 year old Jessie James for not wanting to join a gang and the married father of three daughters, Garry Newlove, who was trying to prevent his car from being ransacked. Since then, we have had the horrific murder of Rhys Jones, caught in the crossfire of rival gangs.
We need the toughest possible criminal justice system to deter, punish and rehabilitate those responsible for the appalling crimes, but we also need to step back and see what we have to do as a nation to restore civility and reverse the spiral of social breakdown that has lead to these incidents and many more across the United Kingdom. In this article I want to suggest some positive policies to end the costs of social breakdown looking particularly at the family.
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