My hon. Friend is making his point powerfully, as usual, but I have been sitting here listening to the debate and I must say that one way to reduce child poverty is surely to encourage marriage and for children to be born into families where the parents are married, because they stay together longer. It seems as though the two other main parties in the House are opposed to the idea of encouraging marriage.
Child Poverty Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Bone
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 December 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Child Poverty Bill.
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