Children Do Best When Brought Up In Married Families

Children Do Best When Brought Up In Married Families
Source: UK's (Tony Blair's favourite think-tank)

It said it also accepted that children are better off with married parents than with parents who cohabit.

The report from the country's most prominent and influential Left-leaning policy group contradicts eight years of Government rhetoric saying that all families are equally good.

Billions of pounds have been targeted at single parents while ministers have undermined the legal and social status of marriage, according to critics.

But yesterday the policy institute acknowledged that research clearly showed that 'children who grow up with both biological parents do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single-parent family'.

The climbdown came in the think-tank's report on youngsters. This revealed that our teenagers drink more, take more drugs, have sex at a younger age and are involved in more fights than those elsewhere in Europe.

And yesterday - when the institute made its full report available - it said the breakdown of the traditional married family was at the root of this disturbed teenage behaviour.

It said: 'Changes to families, such as more parents working, and rising rates of divorce and single parenthood, have undermined the ability of families to effectively socialize young people.' This, it said, 'has shown that children of cohabiting couples do worse than those of married couples.'

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