According to Melanie Phillips writing in the Daily Mail the cause of the 2011 UK riots was Britain's liberal intelligentsia who smashed virtually every social value (Daily Mail, Britain's liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value, 11th August 2011),
Mr Miliband, leader of the opposition party, also backed the work of family intervention projects and said there were "big issues of parental responsibility".
But he warned against "wheeling out the old stereotypes and prejudices".
"Some people say it's all about family breakdown, but there are single parents who do a brilliant job and two-parent families who do a terrible job," he said.
"Some people say it's all about the feckless at the bottom, but there are rich families unable to control their kids and poor families who do it very well," he added.
He called for a "national conversation" about the causes of the riots, and warned against "knee-jerk gimmicks".
The Prime Minister Mr Cameron said it was necessary to start with the issues of family and parenting, "If we want to have any hope of mending our broken society".
In future, he said, he wanted a "family test" applied to all domestic policy."If it hurts families, if it undermines commitment, if it tramples over the values that keep people together, or stops families from being together, then we shouldn't do it".
PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL RUTTER – Author 'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed'
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''The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all too predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value. The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity, enforcement of the drugs laws and many more fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia hell-bent on a revolutionary transformation of society''.Mr Cameron also said he wanted to "push further, faster" on policies to improve schools. He asked whether enough was being done to ensure good new schools were set up in the poorest areas, and to hold underperforming schools to account.
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The 2011 UK Riots
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Mr Miliband, leader of the opposition party, also backed the work of family intervention projects and said there were "big issues of parental responsibility".
But he warned against "wheeling out the old stereotypes and prejudices".
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"Some people say it's all about the feckless at the bottom, but there are rich families unable to control their kids and poor families who do it very well," he added.
He called for a "national conversation" about the causes of the riots, and warned against "knee-jerk gimmicks".
The Prime Minister Mr Cameron said it was necessary to start with the issues of family and parenting, "If we want to have any hope of mending our broken society".
In future, he said, he wanted a "family test" applied to all domestic policy."If it hurts families, if it undermines commitment, if it tramples over the values that keep people together, or stops families from being together, then we shouldn't do it".
COMMENTS
LORD
JUSTICE THORPE – Vice President UK Family Division
On
30th July 2004 the author was given the, so far, unique privilege by
the UK Court of Appeal to publish the County Court judgments from the
family proceedings in his case because of his, 'history of
responsible campaigning and writing on issues relating to family
relationships'
BUCKINGHAM
PALACE
"It was thoughtful of you to enclose a copy of your book 'even Toddlers Need Fathers' and Her Majesty has noted your concerns"
"It was thoughtful of you to enclose a copy of your book 'even Toddlers Need Fathers' and Her Majesty has noted your concerns"
PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL RUTTER – Author 'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed'
"Very
many thanks for sending me a copy of your interesting and informative
guide on 'even Toddlers Need Fathers'. I much appreciate your drawing
my attention to it"
BARONESS
RICHMOND - An architect of the Children Act 1989 and a member of the
UK Supreme Court
"The
father has a point of view which he wishes to advocate. His Honour
Judge Milligan described it as a political point of view, but it is
not political in a party-political sense. There are many people who
might call it political in the gender political-sense for there are
many ways in which that word can be used. He has the view that the
courts and the law have been too respectful of the relationship
between mothers and their children to the detriment of the importance
of the relationship between fathers and their children. He argues
that one of the purposes of the Children Act 1989 was to redress the
balance: to promote a more equal sharing of responsibility for
children between mothers and fathers and to promote the maintenance a
good relationship as possible between children and each of their
parents should, unhappily, their parents not be living together. The
father is correct that that was one of the principles behind the
Children Act 1989, in which I take a certain amount of pride".
