Family law

Read today that some Tory MPs are concerned about Mr. Cameron’s pro- marriage message and intend to raise their fears and concerns with him privately. They are worried that this message sounds like a throwback to John major’s “back to basics” campaign.

Some even went as far as saying that this tax policy implies that people who were not married were failures and responsible for the breakdown of society. “What does it say about single people or people whose marriages have failed?” a female MP said. “It says they are somehow inadequate. He should just shut up about marriage. It’s a big mistake and suggests we don’t know what’s going on in Britain. It’s not our job to be pronouncing on people’s private lives.”

Why not? Isn’t it a legislators’ job to look after all families, married or single? Is it that hard to put together a policy that helps all families, a tax policy that does not penalise a type of family and without putting the emphasis on one family over the other?

Marriage is traditionally the best foundation for a family and it should be encouraged and supported, but also should other types of family unite. Commitment and love are the bedrock of a well rounded unit. Today not all commitments result in marriage and a lot of unions are not traditional, it is therefore the duty of politicians and lawmakers to put in place laws that will help and support all types and styles of families, married, single, same sex, old and young. The core foundation of a good and solid family should be the commitment that caregivers emplace in a stable, loving, and understanding environment, and we should support and encourage all shapes and sizes that families come in.