Edwina Currie
Writer, Broadcaster and Ploitician Dr. A. Wahid
Muslim G.P and social affairs writer
Chaired By:
Professor Raymond Kuhn
Head of politics of Queen Mary College and chair of QMC philosopher club
Collapsing relationships:
New research from Bristol Community Family Trust suggests three quarters of all family breakdowns affecting young children now involve unmarried parents. Unmarried parents are five times more likely to break up than married parents. This research now suggests that divorce is not the major problem any more. The findings indicate that family breakdown is no longer driven by divorce, but by the collapse of unmarried partnerships.
This throws into light the debate of whether the fall in the rates of traditional two married parent families is simply a harmless changing social phenomenon or a reflection of a society which is changing for the worse.
