THE REVELATION that Britain tops a world league table for having the most unmarried teenage mothers will shock many people.

For it shows that an astounding 87 per cent of UK mothers under 19 are unwed.

Society cannot avoid the social consequences of this cultural revolution.

For in the making is a new, growing generation of one-parent families - whose children tend to be those most disadvantaged and whose upbringing is often one entailing benefit dependency and deprivation.

When Britain begins to see trends usually associated with Third World poverty undermining its traditional family structure, against a background of general prosperity, widespread sexual education and freely available contraception, the question that comes with this growing social crisis must be: what went wrong?

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