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Family life has been discouraged over 25 years by both Conservative and Labour governments. In the Thatcher years, the Conservative government gave lone parents special financial benefits and priority entitlement to council housing. In the Labour years, the state increasingly became the child-care provider. As Patricia Morgan comments, \"Under Thatcher, the state became the bread-winner for lone parents; under Brown the state became the child carer. The consequences are obvious -- couples are strongly encouraged not to commit to each other because, by doing so, they will lose out financially. Both Conservative and Labour governments also removed any offsetting compensation in the tax system that had previously helped two-parent families.\"  Government policy penalising two-parent families has had a disastrous economic and social effect. Couples who describe themselves as \"closely involved\" are twelve times more likely than married couples to split up in the first three years of a childs life. There are also higher levels of worklessness and benefit dependency -- lone parent families receiving an average of 66% of their income in benefits and tax credits. Morgan shows how it is clear from international evidence, examining trends over time and by looking at the behaviour of individuals on different levels of income, that the tax and benefits system has caused the increase in lone parent families. Where there are no incentives for lone parenthood, couples tend to stay together, marry and ensure that they can support their children independently of the state. Individuals and couples respond rationally to the incentives they face -- currently the government is giving families perverse incentives, encouraging them not to form stable family units.  Major changes in the tax and benefit system are necessary. Benefits to lone parents could be reduced. Also, the perverse incentives in the benefits system that discourage couples from committing together should be offset by a tax system that recognises families. In particular, families should be allowed to allocate the income of the main earner to non-earners in the family for tax purposes. Reforms to the tax and benefits system should be bolstered by reforms to the \"no fault\" divorce laws that currently allow a guilty party to walk away from their marriage contract whilst imposing financial penalties on the injured party.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589569061137,"sku":"GOR001904225","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50654080434449,"sku":"GOR007559847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52477656563985,"sku":"NLS9780255365963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0255365969.jpg?v=1751447761"},{"product_id":"farewell-to-the-family-book-patricia-m-morgan-9780255363563","title":"Farewell to the Family?","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611630805265,"sku":"GOR001170182","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0255363567.jpg?v=1751195270"},{"product_id":"family-policy-family-changes-book-patricia-m-morgan-9781903386439","title":"Family Policy, Family Changes","description":"The UK is experiencing the most serious problems with the breakdown of the family. This work compares the family policy of Italy, Sweden and the UK.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613026459921,"sku":"GOR003974698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903386438.jpg?v=1751347642"},{"product_id":"adoption-and-the-care-of-children-book-patricia-m-morgan-9780255364348","title":"Adoption and the Care of Children","description":"Adoption is out of favour. Numbers have fallen dramatically, and baby adoptions have become rare events. Recent trends in family law make it increasingly unlikely that children will ever be declared free to be adopted, while would-be adopters are discouraged by a series of obstacles and abjections. Consequently children who are unable to live with their natural parents are likely to spend long periods - possibly their entire childhoods - 'in care'. This can entail years of to-ing and fro-ing between children's homes, foster parents, and repeated attempts to re-unite them with neglectful and often abusive parents. The results for the children concerned are extremely poor, and all the evidence suggests that the state makes a very bad substitute parent. Children who have spent time 'in care' are more prone to psychiatric disorders, they suffer in terms of education and health, and they often 'graduate' from the system to homelessness, unemployment and prison. The results for adopted children, on the other hand, are extremely good. They do well by all measures. When they experience problems, these often relate to their early childhood trauma at the hands of their natural parents, or to long periods spent 'in care' prior to adoption. In this book Patricia Morgan argues that childcare legislation and practice should be re-organised so that adoption becomes the first, not the last, option for children who cannot live with their parents. A child welfare system for the twenty-first century should be built around finding a permanent home for every child.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615981150481,"sku":"GOR012251863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52534119170321,"sku":"NLS9780255364348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0255364342.jpg?v=1750909103"},{"product_id":"children-as-trophies-book-patricia-m-morgan-9781901086188","title":"Children as Trophies","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49621128642833,"sku":"GOR002235010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1901086186.jpg?v=1751315161"},{"product_id":"how-to-raise-children-of-destiny-book-patricia-m-morgan-9781560431343","title":"How to Raise Children of Destiny","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50445111197969,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50445111623953,"sku":"CIN1560431342VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51916319064337,"sku":"CIN1560431342G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1560431342.jpg?v=1751023460"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-costs-of-childcare-book-patricia-m-morgan-9780906229101","title":"The hidden costs of childcare","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50486280061201,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50486282780945,"sku":"GOR007042721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0906229103.jpg?v=1751077613"},{"product_id":"marriage-lite-book-patricia-m-morgan-9781903386040","title":"Marriage-Lite","description":"Cohabitation has become increasingly popular, replacing marriage for most young people as the first type of relationship they will enter into. Politicians and pundits often treat cohabitation and marriage as essentially the same, with marriage dismissed as no more than a 'piece of paper'. In this thorough review of the research findings, Patricia Morgan shows that marriage and cohabitation are essentially different, and one does not necessarily lead to the other. Cohabiting relationships are fragile and often short-lived, always more likely to break up than marriages entered into at the same time, and regardless of age or income levels. Cohabitations with children are even more vulnerable than childless ones. Cohabitants tend to behave more like single than married people in terms of fidelity to their partners, substance abuse and other health-related behaviours. The risk of violent and abusive behaviour is greater. Patricia Morgan argues that marriage is a declaration of commitment which has public as well as private consequences, and deserves support. It offers benefits not only to the couples themselves but to society as a whole. \"Research showing the pitfalls of cohabitation and the benefits of marriage is being withheld by an army of 'politically correct gatekeepers' that includes the Government and family charities, according to a report.\" The Times. \"Patricia Morgan is the most penetrating writer on family break-up of our times, and perhaps the only person in Britain who understands how the social security system works.\" The Daily Telegraph. \"Couples who live together without getting married are more abusive, unfaithful and unhealthy than married people, according to a new report.\" The Sunday Telegraph. \"Marriage-Lite...aims to warn these cohabiting couples that they are running serious risks that do not affect married people - or, at least, that affect them less.\" The New Statesman. \"Dr Morgan accuses the government of refusing to back marriage despite the compelling evidence of its benefits.\" The Daily Mail.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50957040746769,"sku":"GOR003920977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51436871975185,"sku":"GOR003219691","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903386047.jpg?v=1750769744"},{"product_id":"family-matters-book-patricia-m-morgan-9781877148835","title":"Family Matters","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51630989934865,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51630990164241,"sku":"GOR014313311","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1877148830.jpg?v=1750725961"},{"product_id":"delinquent-fantasies-book-patricia-m-morgan-9780851171166","title":"Delinquent Fantasies","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51681742913809,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681743372561,"sku":"GOR006593979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51890751078673,"sku":"GOR005073218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53077177663761,"sku":"GOR005281901","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0851171168.jpg?v=1751297438"},{"product_id":"adoption-book-patricia-m-morgan-9780255364560","title":"Adoption","description":"Adoptions are now running at less than a quarter of the total 1975. 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