But in a sign that the demonisation of single mothers that was so much the fashion in the 1980s has never really gone away, Robert Whelan, of the think-tank Civitas, said: "All the effort goes to young women who have never bothered to bring a man into the house. We don't want to do anything else to encourage single parenthood.
"Just as the Government says it is committed to reducing teenage pregnancies, so it should commit itself to cutting the number of single-parent families."
- There can be few people who remember their school toilets with much affection, except perhaps for those who used to hang out in them in order to smoke. And the latest report from the Welsh children's commissioner Peter Clarke confirms that not much has changed.
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