The Case for Marriage Tax Allowances in a Cohabitation Culture | Jade Payne
“It is irresponsible for politicians to pretend that it’s fine for people to be traumatised, thrust into poverty and abuse. Children who experience family breakdown are worse off by almost every metric. Marriage benefits everyone; the couple, their children, and wider society.”
Stop hedging, start marrying | Mary Harrington
It’s easy to blame this, as conservative tabloids often do, on "selfish career women"—but the reality is more complex and more endemic. Gestation is something like a state of symbiosis, and the way it concretises the limits to individual human freedom so radically contradicts the liberal narrative that motherhood as such has to be swept under the carpet, or treated at best as a punishment, or a problem to be solved. We can only be good mothers by failing as atomised subjects. So inasmuch as the wider culture encourages us to be atomised subjects, it can’t help but discourage us from being mothers.
Big Brother: the imposition of authority on family life during the Coronavirus pandemic | Michael Fraser
Johnson’s government’s latest policies are seriously threatening to erode our already vulnerable family structures further- our “little platoons”- in a careless slide towards ever greater state dominance, and history will not look kindly on them for it.
Romney’s family benefits: surprisingly social, and surprisingly conservative | OC Comment
All in all, the Romney plan is able to square conservative ideals and welfare practice. Though in some areas it reverts to outdated liberal solutions, this plan provides a useful “first draft” for future conservative efforts in addressing the popular demand for a welfare state by shifting the focus to marriage and the family.
Life or obscurity - the European choice | OC Comment
As the French sociologist Auguste Comte proclaimed: “Demography is Destiny”. And if we are to look at Europe through a demographic lens, its destiny is grim indeed. With fertility rates plummeting due to the spread of abortion, with the nuclear famirely ripped apart by the forces of postmodern activism, with the vilification of traditional gender roles by third-wave feminism, Europe stands on the brink of demographic extinction.
The paterfamilias: male responsibility, traditional family, and wider society | Sam G. Hall
Tradition has withered, not rotted. Its very nature is perennial and therefore liable to re-emergence in the right conditions. Years worth of damage will take a corresponding number of years to heal, but within that framework, restoring the paterfamilias would undoubtedly create a societal ripple. If we wish to see broader changes, it is best to begin with the smallest compositional unit of society, i.e., the family itself.
No, Eugenicism against Down’s Syndrome babies is not acceptable | Jason Plessas
Under the 1967 Abortion Act, unborn babies with Down syndrome can be aborted right up until the end of a pregnancy, along with those with other non-fatal disabilities including cleft-lip palate and clubfoot. Heidi is the public face of Don’t Screen Us Out, who are mounting a legal challenge to end that discrepancy. “Five minutes before the baby comes down the birth canal, if the child is suspected to have Down’s, the baby could be aborted,” says her mother, Liz, despite people with Down’s being more than capable of living life “to the full”.
Britain’s epidemic of broken homes is affecting its children | Kelseigh Powell-Hall
It is, of course, necessary to state that simply pointing out the ideal conditions for raising children is in no way shaming or ignoring the struggles of single parents, but instead promoting the traditional family as the prerequisite for optimal childhood development. Britons today must be educated on the benefits of stable families and encouraged to create an environment which will best allow for their children to succeed.