Breakdown Britain - produced by the Conservative Partys Social Justice Policy Group headed by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith - highlights five pathways to poverty: family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependence, indebtedness and addictions. According to the report, family breakdown costs the economy 20bn in benefits to lone parents. It states that more stable families would lead to fewer children taken into care, as well as reduce levels of homelessness, drug addiction, crime, unemployment, demand on health services and the need for remedial teaching in schools. It also states that the existence of more stable families would lead to better educational achievement.
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