The parties competing for votes within the upcoming General Election are being called upon to support marriage.
Harry Benson, research director of the Marriage Foundation, said that the following government must work to “turn back the tide” on family breakdown which has led to a “chaotic” society by which nearly half of UK teenagers will not be living with each natural parents.
He desires to see support for marriage promoted in party manifestos and public policies to “make it attractive for couples to marry”.
“It’s now a decade since any cabinet minister made a speech that included the importance of marriage,” said Benson.
“This public silence is at odds with their private behaviour. Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are each married, as are most of their respective cabinets. What do they know that we shouldn’t know?”
He is looking for change to the present “costly but ineffective” policy which suggests that couples on low incomes stand to lose part or all of their advantages in the event that they marry.
The Marriage Foundation is as an alternative calling for the introduction of a taxable child profit at the worth of £3,000 a 12 months for married moms with a primary child under three.
He said that family breakdown within the UK was “prone to worsen” without more state support for marriage.
“We spend as much on supporting lone parents (quite rightly) as we do on defence,” he continued.
“So come on political parties. Champion marriage, make it attractive for couples to marry, and switch back the tide of family breakdown. State your support in your manifestos. You embrace marriage in your personal lives. So why not put it on the market in your public policies.”
