The Centre for Social Justice, a think tank headed by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, makes the recommendation in a green paper on family published ahead of the government's families green paper this week.
The report, which points to evidence of the negative impact that single parent households can have on children, also suggests the creation of family fostering placements, which would provide intensive residential support to families with children "at immediate risk of entering care for preventable reasons."
The paper also addresses the issue of recognising marriage in the tax system by allowing a transferable tax allowance for married couples with children aged nought to three, and removing the "couple penalty" in the working tax credit system, giving couples the same ratio of support as lone parents.
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