National Marriage Day & the UK riots

English MP David Lammy commented:

"There is none of the basic starting presumption of two adults who want to start a family, raise children together, love them, nourish them and lead them to full independence. The parents are not married and the child has come, frankly, out of casual sex; the father is not present, and is not expected to be. There are not the networks of extended families to make up for it. We are seeing huge consequences of the lack of male role models in young
men's lives. . ."

Social commentator Niamh Ui Bhriain in her article Why is London Burning says:

"The decline of marriage has left a significant proportion of children with a confused understanding of stability and of boundaries. And the lack of male role model means that young men in particular seek out the toughest in the gang for an authority figure rather than their father. That means just one bad apple can influence a whole community of young teens.

The rioters this week were mostly teenagers, young people who seemed to believe that the best way of expressing their discontent was to loot, smash and assault innocent people. Some of them were just kids: one an 11-year-old boy who is before Highbury Corner Youth Court as part of a gang who looted a Debenhams store on Monday night.

Some commentators called the looters feral... but I think that description lets the people who have contributed to this mess off the hook. The truth is that society is falling apart... mostly because of the social engineering which is driven by the affluent chattering classes...

So, while liberal (usually affluent) policy-makers have spent decades talking down morality and ridiculing "old-fashioned" notions of family values, they make sure that their own families benefit from the security those values bring to their lives. Meanwhile, working class children increasingly grow up without a Dad or a sense of responsibility, and the rates of teenage pregnancy, poverty, school dropout and crime continue to spiral".

But perhaps it was Melanie Phillips from the UK Daily Mail who really nailed the problem.

". . . at the very heart of these problems lies the breakdown of the family. For most of these children come from lone-mother households. And the single most crucial factor behind all this mayhem is the willed removal of the most important thing that socialises children and turns them from feral savages into civilised citizens: a father who is a fully committed member of the family unit.

Of course there are many lone parents who do a tremendous job. But we're talking here about widespread social collapse. And there are whole areas of Britain, white as well as black, where committed fathers are a wholly unknown phenomenon.

In such areas, successive generations are being brought up only by mothers, through whose houses pass transitory males by whom these women have yet more children - and who inevitably repeat the pattern of lone and dysfunctional parenting.

The result is fatherless boys who are consumed by an existential rage and desperate emotional need, and who take out the damage done to them by lashing out from infancy at everyone around them."

Melanie Philips points out that all of this chaos and social destruction is the fruit of the policies of the powerful elites many of whom are "ultra feminists." These people have been in positions of power in Great Britain in both media and government for many decades.

These elites are often heterophobic and share a common hatred for marriage, common sense morality and the natural family. They are slaves to political correctness. The results of their policies speak for themselves.