I think this is a but of a misunderstanding, probably a result of the
limits of email...
No one is advocating "regulating family life". Instead, we want to use
government, as society's agent, to encourage responsible behavior
ESPECIALLY where children are concerned. We aren't talking about (old
think) "regulation" instead, this is about the power of incentives......
Perhaps this is not as critical an issue in Britain as in America, but
for the "new dems' to be taken seriously in the political arena we had
to confront the fact that many of our policies (welfare particularly)
incentivised against the "social norms" ... i.e. the system punished
people for working and getting married, but rewarded them for having
more babies....
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