Family breakdown is to blame for a raft of problems faced by young people in the UK, according to a report from a leading Conservative politician. Breakdown Britain - produced by the Conservative Party’s Social Justice Policy Group headed by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith - highlights “five pathways” to poverty: family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependence, indebtedness and addictions. According to the report, family breakdown costs the economy £20bn in benefits to lone parents. It states that more stable families would lead to fewer children taken into care, as well as reduce levels of homelessness, drug addiction, crime,...


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