The breakdown of the family unit in England ...?

Question

People used to buy houses to live in, bring their kids up and grow old in. It was a place to start a family above all.
And now houses are bought for profit. What has happened to buying a house to raise a family in?
Is that part of the root of the problem of the breakdown of the family unit?

Answer 1

Not only England, this is being seen here in the states as well, and I surmise worldwide since everything now is globalized.

The family unit is crumbling, little by little.

In some ways, it's shunned.

Many spokespersons for the new way of living will put down the traditional way of living.

Nobody seems capable of attacking those who want to see families fall apart.

Buying homes today is changing to suit the newer lifestyles.

It amazes me to see what types become owners of homes in these highly inflated times.

I wonder if they are richer due to their differences?

Answer 2

No, I don't think so. I grew up in a big working class family, most of us rented. We had 'family values'. But there was also some domestic violence and the women couldn't leave. We also grew up with a strong work ethic. There was never any golden age of perfect families, we look back and think it was better because we feel discontented with the way things are now.
The '80's changed everything. Job insecurity was something that the previous generation hadn't faced. No one in our family before my generation had claimed the dole. The stress of unemployment has aggravated problems that were already there.
Yuppie thinking has changed a lot about this country, the 'I'm all right jack' mentality that people used to blame on the unions has moved to a different group and is tolerated or even approved of. Anything goes for a quick profit now.

Its actually the right to buy that has caused the current attitude to property. When you take out a mortgage, you have to repay 2 1/2 times what you borrowed over 20 years. So you're banking that your house is going to increase in value 2 1/2 times over 20 years. House prices always have to go up to keep pace. Buying your house has been promoted as an 'investment', not a case of purchasing a home for you and your family. Renting has been promoted as a waste of money, not a good investment.
But the govt doesn't force people to take on these values, they choose to do it.

Families on low incomes often can't afford to stay together. When the kids reach 16 they have to go to college or claim dole or get a job. At 16! At 18 they pretty much have to leave home, becuase the parents take a massive cut in benefits. They can no longer afford to support them. In areas where there are no bloody jobs that not an easy thing to do.
It encourages a black market, crime etc and its no use pretending otherwise.

Answer 3

Most of us still realise that you can't eat bricks and mortar, but the big shitty (sorry city) slickers have such massive bonuses even after tax they have bought up whole streets in the 'cheaper' parts of the country denying local people affordable housing. They are left empty undeveloped and are simply a place for these greedy people to 'park' their cash.

If they became responsible landlords they could do huge amount for the common good, but they have no thought or idea how to be responsible asset owners.

Ironically these idiots have been created by new labour.

Prescott is a classic example of 'poverty in power' in every sense of the words

Answer 4

I don't think that its a big part. Back in the days that you are talking about, people that rented rather than buy had the same family values that the 'buyers' did.

These days, the breakdown of the family unit is affecting both renters and buyers equally. I think what you are describing is a symptom of social breakdown rather than the a cause.

Answer 5

Yes, it is part of the root of the problem. You have to remember that the UK government hates and detests family values and holds them in contempt.

For these communists, and that's what this bunch are, but being cowards thay use the word socialist to hide behind.

They believe that the state and only the state has a right to dictate what you say and what you will believe.

Families undermine this doctrine by passing the values learned by one generation down to the next.

This bunch of degenerates are determined to replace English moral values, with drugs, gambling and promoting homosexuality.

Family unity has been undermined deliberately and by design, and there is not much you or I can do about it

Answer 6

Family as a cohesive unit is breaking down through out the world.England is not an exception.The reason is protected sex,equality of sexes,diminishing role of Church and moral values and financial independence of individuals,Growing divorces,children with out marriage,use of drugs etc are the reasons.It may not be possible to go back.We have to live without emotional support of "family" in future.The only solution seems Govt or voluntary agencies providing the emotional sdupport

Answer 7

We are living in a spiritual vacuum.
Godlessness is the order of the day. A country is made up of cities and towns, which are in turn made up of individual homes and if the families in these homes are strong, caring and loving, then in turn the country will be strong.

This is all being broken down and we can see the results.
Drugs, crime, lack of respect, pornography shown openly on TV, a total degeneration and loss of all decency etc.
Where do you think this will end up?
No wonder Islam is getting such a hold.
You have to wonder 'who or what is ultimately behind this'
The name Satan comes to mind!!

Answer 8

this days they do everything to make money.the kids are the victims here.there parents buy a house and after 3 months they buy an other house sell the 1 st house go and live in the second house.the children that go to school lose there friend and have to start over again.those parents are selfish.

Answer 9

Money, the root of all evil, the devilin disguise, has entered the halls of power, worldwide,making money and personal advancement the God's of the day, as it were, and with us all sucked into this 'false' economy, allon the one big ship, destined to sink into hell, we are surely cauught by the devil by the short and curlies.

Answer 10

I recently read an article which claimed that the average Briton moves 16 times during their lifetime