#breakdown

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#behaviour #breakdown #case #classic #containing

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#costs #family #financial #high #incredibly

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room ↗

— Adele Parks

#love

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. ↗

— Brian Cox

#aged #bills #breakdown #chic #debt

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#alternative #approve #benefits #breakdown #decide

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#back #breakdown #country #folk #gentle

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#breakdown #death #enslavement #existential #liberation

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#breakdown #children #compassionate #divided #each