Report Blames Selfish Parents for Childhood Problems

So the selfish individualism of the sons and daughters of the 60s generation has lead to children today being damaged, according to the largest report on the subject.

The Children's Society report had 35,000 contributors and places consumerism and selfishness at the heart of damage done to children.

We are told that more government initiatives and social engineering are the answer to the number of families with one parent or a step-parent.

The elephant in the room is the demolition of marriage that's occurred since the 50s/60s; the promotion of abortion and "gay rights" by a succession of governments and a benefits system which has, to use the parlance in vogue, "institutionalised" the attack on marriage.

It strikes me as common sense, that if we wish to create the best possible scenario across society and within families for the upbringing of children who, in turn, will be well developed and productive members of society, that a few simple steps need to be taken.

I'm thinking primarily of the cessation of "rewarding" single parents with council housing; of tax incentives for married couples and especially married couples with children; help and incentives for mums who make the decision (often financially detrimental) to stay at home to care for their children.

Moreover there needs to be a sea-change in public policy in regards to the family. The days of undermining the family at every turn has to end!

It's hardly rocket science!

Most people - even the politically correct - will acknowledge that the "nuclear family" is the best possible setting for the upbringing of children, so why on earth does the government promote "other forms" of parenting, co-habiting, civil-partnerships and the pic-n-mix 57 varieties of "families" to the detriment of the family?

We are all paying the cost whether it's in the taxes which go to social services, or the insurance premiums we pay on damage done by miscreants to our cars or homes, and many other ways in which the handful of failing quasi-families do.

In all the places I have lived in my meandering existence, I have noticed that most problems (if not outright crimes) in communities, from urban to suburban to outright rural, come from a small number of families in any one area.

If we can, as a society, put the family back as the cornerstone of society, promote the family as the best possible structure for bringing up children, give incentives for couples to marry and raise children... we will not only see less problems in our communities, but we might even begin to rectify many of the problems facing us as an ageing society.

A dwindling workforce and aging population means the pension system is crumbling and politicians (once this "credit crunch" ends will, again) tell us we "need" immigrants to work, fill posts and pay taxes.

Would we rather live in a greying, dying (and "browning") country, wherein the family decays, and where children with no male role model become ever more the norm, or a vibrant nation in which the family is placed at the centre -- and life and youth is seen as a gift, which will enable these isles to have a future?

Communists tried and failed to bring about the end of the family via collectivisation.

The Capitalists are now trying to bring about the death of the family via the burden of debt on families (forcing both parents to work) and the promotion of a "do what thou wilt" society where the golden calf of "choice" enables us all to be selfish, and sacrifice children or the care of children for own well-being.

Can we as nationalists raise the banner for the family? Can we show that the sacrifice needed to raise children, and to raise children well, is worthwhile: for us, for our community and for our nation?

Unfortunately there is no short-term fix. To put the family first is going to take years, if not decades, of hard slog and struggle. But, to be frank, we have no choice - because to do otherwise would be to surrender to the forces that are out to destroy every last vestige of family life.

It's going to take more that Tory-style empty slogans too.


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BBC on Childhood Report