An article in the Daily Mail (November 17) reveals that while the estimate of family breakdown for married parents is pegged at 48 per cent, the chance that unwed parents will still be together by their child’s 15th birthday goes down to a miserable one in 20.

The biting ‘reason’ why this is to be is unsurprisingly not presented as a reason but rather as an aside to the bleak narrative: that “the average bride is now aged over 30, according to the Office for National Statistics. Research suggests reasons for later marriage include more women going into education and beginning careers, as well as the costs of weddings and children”.

That marriage and family, which are the building blocks of a strong society, should play second fiddle to women’s ‘careers’ and their ‘decision’ to abstain from motherhood is proof – if any proof was ever required – of the damage that women’s emancipation has wrought over the very livelihood of the western nation State.

Marriage Foundation researcher Harry Benson is quoted as saying the following: “Family breakdown costs the Exchequer around £46 billion a year... I don’t see how the country will afford the steep rise in this bill that the increase in numbers of broken families will bring over the next few years.”

Was a bankrupt, broken and unhappy society a fair price to pay for women’s lib?

I prefer to be optimistic and to hope against all hope that the girls growing up in this day and age will be taught about the importance of subordinating their selfish desires of haughty and dissolute independence for the good of their men, their children and of society as a whole.

A better future awaits us if only women would learn that their place is in the home.

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