Some felt their children had been hurt by the family breakdown and that they needed additional care.

We appear to have higher rates of divorce and family breakdown.

A growing proportion of children are affected by family breakdown.

A3 Family breakdown is a global phenomenon, a study finds.

The core problem in black communities is not family breakdown, its the fact that there are all too few 'families' to break down.

That is a function of Government, not of family breakdown.

Many of the reasons children were placed in care related to poverty and family breakdown.

The period covering Christmas and the new year is notorious for family breakdown.

And we know that family breakdown plays a big part in cycles of disadvantage.

Will states have the flexibility to confront dependence and family breakdown in crime?

Third, we need to look at how we can protect children in the event of family breakdown.

It calls on government, communities and families to take action to solve problems early to prevent family breakdown.

He added that "The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Social problems, like drug abuse and family breakdown, have overwhelmed students and their teachers.

Conservatives generally believe that family breakdown is at the core of low minority living standards.

The inspectors reported high levels of "trauma", such as family breakdown, and domestic violence.

And I think we should do all we can not to encourage family breakdown among minorities.

It is a function of family breakdown, which takes place over generations and whose consequences the Government will have to tackle.

Second, family breakdown has devastated economic progress for those on the bottom rungs.

Fears that it was fuelling family breakdown forced the government to take action.

He described the high rate of family breakdown as a problem society was failing to face up to but one that had to be tackled.

Such attitudes not only displace others from paid employment but also lead to family breakdown.

Family breakdown and drug abuse are syptoms of poverty, not causes.

Special education costs continue to rise, in step with students' problems related to family breakdown, poverty and substance abuse.

In general he finds little evidence for the argument that the new homelessness is a consequence of "family breakdown."