Quotation by

Iain Duncan Smith

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

Family

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

The quotation highlights that tracking how many children grow up with both their birth parents and how positively those parents view their relationship emphasizes the importance of maintaining stable family environments. It suggests that social programs should focus on supporting families to stay together and prevent separation.

More by this author

All quotes by Iain Duncan Smith →

More quotes about Family

See all →

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and co…

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family w…

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and…

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

I've always known I wanted a family.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.