From Newsgroup: uk.religion.christian

Last Friday, a Government announcement (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/families-spared-time-and-money-during-separation-thanks-to-government-action) boasted of a onon-means tested u500
mediation vouchero for separating families u paid up front, no income
test, no questions asked. The State already spends over u7 million a year
on this scheme. It spends nothing on an equivalent grant to help couples
marry or strengthen their marriage. The Marriage Allowance reduces (https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance) a married coupleas tax bill by at
best u252 a year u and only if both partnersa incomes fall within set
limits.

Why is the Government offering u500 to help you split up, but only u252 a
year if you stay together?


Beyond the u500 voucher, family legal aid

(https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics)

for divorce and separation proceedings costs the taxpayer millions of
pounds every year. And family breakdown costs

(https://relationshipsfoundation.org/publications/pressreleases/cost-family-failure-2018-update/)

the British taxpayer an estimated u51 billion a year. The Government
continues to invest in the dissolution, not the promotion of marriage.
This spring, it opens its cohabitation consultation

(https://todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk/cohabitation-reform-a-matter-of-utmost-importance-ahead-of-spring-consultation/)
,
expected to extend marriage-style legal rights to relationships that never
made the commitment.

Ending a marriage is supposed to be hard. That is what carries it through
the years when feelings fade, and that is what protects the children of
it. Our laws should make it easier to stay together, not harder.
--
Stuart Winsor

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