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Easy divorces have caused a youth mental health epidemic, warns top Tory peer

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“It’s an inconvenient truth that parental separation is a recognised adverse childhood experience.”

The peer will point out that by the time British children reach the age of 14, nearly half of them are no longer living with both natural parents.

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Ministers have made divorce to easy, Lord Farmer will say (Image: Getty)

In the last 50 years, the percentage of births taking place outside marriage has soared from 8 per cent to 48 per cent; in addition 15 per cent of births are to women with no partner of any kind – three times the level in the rest of western Europe.

The collapse of the conventional married family is mirrored by the surge in young people seeking help for mental illness, Lord Farmer will note.

The percentage seeking assistance from NHS child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) rocketed by 76 per cent from 2019.

In 2019, over 800,000 under-18s sought help from Camhs, soaring to over 1.4 million in 2022.

Citing widespread research that life outcomes for children from broken homes are much worse than those from stable families, Lord Farmer will argue that couples considering separation or divorce should be warned that the results for them and their children are frequently catastrophic.

“Adults are also deeply and detrimentally affected by family breakdown – it is often a gateway to poverty, loneliness, mental health problems and domestic violence from informal partners.

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“Women are more likely to be physically abused, assaulted during pregnancy, and seriously injured by live-in boyfriends than by husbands. Family breakdown dramatically raises the risk of domestic violence – the single biggest predictor of domestic violence is being a separated woman.”

Lord Farmer is a co-founder with Dr Samantha Callan of the Family Hubs Network – one-stop shops for troubled families bringing together a range of services. Hubs operate in 100 of the country’s 150 local authorities and Lord Farmer will urge ministers to expand their activities to include mediation and advice for families on the brink of splitting up.

Lord Farmer will also lambast upper middle class elites for their “hypocrisy” in marrying themselves while promoting liberal social attitudes that lead to single parenthood and broken homes among the less wealthy and privileged.

He will cite approvingly Professor Matthew Goodwin, who calls out the hypocrisy of people in the elite who are, he says, by far the most likely to get married, have children in marriage, and then stay married.

Yet they downplay the importance of stable families, encourage others to lead “fluid”, “individual”, and “diverse” lives, and deride anybody who points to the importance of marriage and family as right-wing reactionaries who want to return to the 1950s.

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Lord Farmer will say: “Their ‘Do as I say but not as I do’ is a classic ‘luxury belief’, an idea aggressively promoted to bolster their own standing, which exacts huge societal and individual harms and costs but which they do not personally pursue.”

Conservative ministers will come under fire for introducing no-fault divorce and spawning 100,000 cases clogging up the family courts with average waits for resolution of nearly a year.

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