[onlyme]

"Education would benefit, too. Classrooms would be less plagued by fatherless lads whose ambition it is to cause nothing but trouble."

Sorry, I was trying to read the article with an open mind till i read the above. Gave it up as a load of propaganda trying to blame the worlds unrest on the single mother.

Hows about the Government try and actually work with the single parent, rather than demonify (SP) them. I have NEVER come across a pregnant teenager that had a child to get a council house. Most seem to be out of a misplaced love for the father, or purely a mistake.

If the Government made it easier for single parents to go back to work, then surely that would be better. The system is not designed for working parets. Lets face it, how many parents have cringed at the 6 week holidays (or 9 week as my child has!!). If the Gvernment put something more in place to assist with childcare, a) I think a lot more lone parents would actually want to go back to work, b) Then they coud also look at encouraging/retraining lone parents, or look at initiatives as they have the long term sick