I do agree with you in part, parents need to control their offspring.
Corporal Punishment was abolished in 1987 by the Conservatives and shortly after the welfare rules changed in that teenage single mothers would be entitled to apply for social housing (around 1989). I do believe that the growth in career welfare benefiters in the form of single parent households began to spawn rapidly from this point.
I was around 18 when this changed and a significant number of girls in my school year found themselves pregnant and before you knew it had been given council flats in a very expensive area of the Cotswolds where property prices were sky high that they would never otherwise afford (and I’m not saying that these were the intelligent ones!).
So in fairly quick succession, we stopped corporal punishment, sowed the seeds of benefit careers and set to destroy financially the nucleus family.
Where else in the world does it pay for you to be better off bringing up children on your own..
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