In areas like mine, we know that 59% of black Caribbean children are looked after by a lone parent. There is none of the basic starting presumption of two adults who want to start a family, raise children together, love them, nourish them and lead them to full independence. The parents are not married and the child has come, frankly, out of casual sex; the father isn?t present, and isn?t expected to be. There aren?t the networks of extended families to make up for it. We are seeing huge consequences of the lack of male role models in young men?s lives..
That from David Lammy, who was writing on fatherhood well before the riots kicked off, here willing to say what all too many on the professional left would shy away from.
Which might give the impression he thinks fatherhood is important. Which it is. And good on him for saying so.
Can?t think why, then, he voted against a bill that stipulated the welfare of children conceived through fertility treatment had to include consideration of the need for both a father and a mother.
Or why, indeed, he voted against a bill simply wanting to enshrine the need to take into account the welfare of a child conceived through fertility treatment, with such considerations to include the need for a father.
And much else besides, should one care to look for it. Truth is, for all the anguish and?despair, the apparent collapse of belief in family and fatherhood amongst the social ?underclass? merely reflects the collapse of belief in family and?fatherhood?amongst the political class.
(hat-tip Guido)
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