Broken Britain?

The story that featured on the front of the Sun on Friday has once again set the debate running about British society.

The Sunday Times leader takes a look at the question and concludes that

Britain is doing low-life better than almost all other developed countries. A growing segment, which Charles Murray in a pioneering investigation for this newspaper called the underclass, is devoid of the values and morality of a civilised society which foolishly provides the financial incentives to behave badly. We saw it in the case of Karen Matthews, who drugged and imprisoned her daughter to extract money from the public and the media, and we see it again now.

William Rees Mogg joins the debate in the Mail on Sunday in his article We've got rid of marriage - but at a terrible cost

With Alasdair Palmer writing in the Teleraph that

modern Britain has created a culture of incentives for teenagers to get pregnant and have children

the flavour of the media's reaction can be easily gauged.But it is also worth reading Sarah Sands in the Independent who says that

Before we all start wailing about irresponsible teenage pregnancies and guest fathers, we might inspect the state of grown-up parental relationships. At least Alfie and Chantelle have the mitigation of youthful naivety when the relationship breaks up.