Charles Murray-American writer+researcher of public policy.True for US applying same ideas to UK.1st book 1989 on 1987,2nd 1994 on 1992in Sunday times.Last response favourable

Concentrates on UK underclass 3aspects
crime-rising at about 40% per 5y
economic inactivity(men 9.6% to 13.3%,16.5m inact,2.2searching job,unempl7.9% falls

illegitimacy(steady,1976 9.2,now31.2,by 2003 50%)-correlation with social group V-the social pattern changes 1parent family becomes norm.2parent families will leave council houses,richer move out of the problem areas,affects local businesses,squatting

Due to wrong welfare policy discouraging low-paid jobs
the public mood-girls get pregnant
No archetype for boys
Hard to coz illegitimacy concentrate in districts +the society there districts is shaped differently
Current welfare policy favours single parents+unemployed,temptation to secretly cohabit,mean life 5 times less than marriages
The Divorce reform act 1969
Already bigger than the stats show,rises exponentially in V,in I will decline
divorce rate is higher in5

Class system will change (wrongly said present one
upper middle class in better shape-New Victorians
rest New Rabble
coz cultural aspects are shortly passing fashion,material aspects affect the poor most.No data supports,poverty trap

Solution-2parent family restored by comparing todays with Victorian(no divorce,no illeg+crime+unempl)
Minimalist solution-benefits for married same
Does not change attitudes,expensive,state cannot give aid,coz cheating
Maximalists solution-penalise single women by removing benefits
demand marriage from men.Good for5,children starve
Full employment might,no data

Critics Pete Alcock,Miriam David,Melanie Philips,Director of the National Council of 1-Parent families Sue Slipman
Simplicity(only illeg
False use of stats
correlation does not mean causation
Unemployment higher among elderly,illegitimacy among younger
Growing trend in divorce doesn't imply unpopularity of marriage,but maybe growing popularity of cohabitation
Children without parents rising much slower than illeg,most of them due to divorce.If penalise mothers,divorce will fall,no meaning of marriage
Unempl.falling
Crime higher coz poorer+steal food
thing incl.overall poverty rise,exclusion from society,economic recession
Victorian+UK/USA irrelevant coz Murray has not done enough research,the state of technology,economic prospects
statis showing growing difference between upper +lower classes are made up,indirect US evidence
Extreme right wing attitude,subjective
takes time to change attitudes,no good in SR,during that time unmarried would live in poverty
feminists+mens place changing,solution-cooperation(Slipman

Punishment could worsen:
single parenthood not voluntary +for economics mostly
Policies unsuccessfully tried in 1930-s
Child Support Agency
Hard to exclude from benefits is an extremely hard one to make.Conservatives already targeting (critics say just for statics,Job Seekers
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{info author|Keith Siilats}, {DATE|02/03/96}, Subject: {info subject|Economics}, Words: {info numwords|1442}

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