Stand up for families

Politicians of all political persuasion are in a mess of their own making.

Stand up for families

They are now caught between a rock and a hard place. They must know what they ought to do but have they the guts to do it? If they don’t know what they ought to do, then they should get off the playing field. They can no longer ignore the fact forcing mothers out of the home into paid employment was short-sighted and unconstitutional.

The nation is already paying a huge price socially, with broken homes, increased levels of anti-social behaviour even among the very young, epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases, children having babies.

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