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 Family breakdown costs taxpayers £41bn a year
The Christian Institute reports that according to new research, UK taxpayers pay £41 billion a year to cover the cost of family breakdown.
Among the costs are £12.38bn for tax and benefits payments to broken families and £8.03bn for civil and criminal justice spending, according to the study.
Think-tank the Relationships Foundation produced the report, which put the cost to individual taxpayers at £1,350 a year.
The Cambridge-based organisation said that family breakdown “reduces health, wealth and wellbeing”.
It added that in the current economic situation the cost is “unsustainable”.
The final totals were arrived at by adding together a number of different costs to the taxpayer which come about as a result of family breakdown.
Executive Director of the Relationships Foundation, Michael Trend, said: “This report deals with the unpopular truth that choices have costs and consequences, and that these are not always borne by the choice-maker.”
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(Source: The Christian Institute, 11/02/10)
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