Healthy families for a stronger nation

Children achieve much more with both parents present

- JOHN HENDEN

THE nuclear family is the basic unit of society. For too long, governments of all hues have neglected this fact and, in many ways, have undermined family life.

The far left regards the family as a tool of capitalism and a threat to their establishing a socialist utopian society.

Therefore, it makes sense for them to undermine the family, regardless of the harms caused to individual family members. They would prefer the state and not the family to provide for the psychological and social needs of the individual.

Other ways the hard left attempt to undermine the nation state is to denigrate national heroes and to portray most national history in a negative light.

Family cohesion is threatened on several fronts - easier divorce; financial disincentives; children as young as five being encouraged to question their biological sex; TV series and ads persistently portraying fathers and husbands in a poor light, to name the main threats.

One BBC series, Beyond Paradise, focusing on a village police force, portrays two male police officers as buffoons and dimwits. This ensures that boys and young men have no healthy role models.

What a far cry from BBC police series of yesteryear. Increasingly, the public are seeing through this anti-family narrative, typical of the contemporary BBC. Unsurprisingly, people are cancelling their licence fees in droves.

Apart from exposing the extremist political movements undermining the family, what else can we do to protect this valued institution?